Petition #11086301

Abstract

Reese Price requests compensation for his slave Anthony, who died from exposure after being impressed to work on fortifications near Columbus, Mississippi. Anthony was a "mechanic", that is a carpenter, and one of only three male and two female adults Price had to work on his farm. Although he owned twenty slaves, he notes that the others are children less than thirteen years of age.

Result: Referred to committee.

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Repository: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi

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