In 1837, Ailsey Abrams received a life estate of a number of slaves. She was to use the slaves during her life and then they would revert to her children. In 1859, she relinquishes her claim to the slaves and their offspring, "so far as her life estate therein is concerned," and asks to dispose of fourteen slaves. It is only through a sale, she argues, that her estate can be equitably "partitioned and divided" among her children. The slaves include four women in their twenties, a teenage boy, and nine children under eleven.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Lauderdale County Courthouse, Florence, Alabama
