North Carolina Deed of an Enslaved Child
Content Description
A North Carolina deed for the sale of an 8 year old enslaved boy named Kilser.
Dates
- 1826
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Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
The deed does not include any further information about Kilser, the enslaved boy who was sold, other than his race and that he was eight years old in 1826. The deed was written by Aaron Harker and the sale was to David R. Whitford. The deed was transacted in Carteret County in eastern North Carolina and recorded the following year by E. Whitehurst, Registrar.
Extent
.01 Linear Feet (One folder containing one item)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
Delicate paper, torn in half
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- Title
- North Carolina Deed of an Enslaved Child
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Suzanne Helms
- Date
- July 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository