Race and Slavery Petitions Project

Details for
SANDERS, Richard ([Saunders]) in Petition 11083306

Name:SANDERS, Richard ([Saunders])
Petition:11083306 filed in Mississippi, 1833
Role in Petition:
Color and Gender:black male
Status:slave
Identified Immediate Family:
Economic Profile:
Age:approx 40 years of age in 1833
Birth:
Death:
Owned slaves?:
Occupation:
Skills:gin wright
Diseases:
Physical Attributes:
Moral Attributes:
Plantations
Literate?:
Urban?:
Runaway?:
Punishments Received:
Term Slave:
Freedom:Presented for freedom in 1833. Origins of freedom: purchased his own freedom; freed by wish of his late owner, John B. Coburn who purchased him to free him.