Race and Slavery Petitions Project

Details for
MITCHELL, Tom in Petition 11283804

Name:MITCHELL, Tom
Petition:11283804 filed in North Carolina, 1838
Role in Petition:
Color and Gender:black male
Status:slave
Identified Immediate Family:
Economic Profile:
Age:approx 26 years of age in 1838
Birth:
Death:
Owned slaves?:
Occupation:
Skills:carpenter
Diseases:
Physical Attributes:
Moral Attributes:
Plantations
Literate?:
Urban?:
Runaway?:
Punishments Received:
Term Slave:
Freedom:Origins of freedom: purchase of freedom; manumitted by Charles Dewey.