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This bill of sale documents the sale of a 26-year-old enslaved man named Moses to Thomas N Stinson of Union Town Potawatomi Nation for the price of $400.
Date: May 15, 1851
Item Number: 532614
Call Number: Thomas N. & Julia Ann Beauchemie Stinson papers, coll. #511, Box 1 Folder 43.
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 532614
Collections - Manuscript
Date - 1850s - 1851
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Bill-of-sale
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable Kansans - Stinson, Thomas N.
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Business records
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Financial records
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