In 1857, Claiborne Carter sold Eliza A. Wainright a female slave for six hundred dollars, accepting as payment a promissory note signed by Eliza and endorsed by her husband Luck Wainright. The note has gone unpaid, and he has learned that Eliza sold the slave for a thousand dollars, so Carter sues Eliza Wainright. "Your orator further shows that the separate estate of said Eliza consists of a tract of land near old St. Stephens in the County of Washington in this State," Carter wrote, "which she cultivates as her plantation together with a number of slaves owned by her and who are employed in and about the cultivation of said plantation."
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