640 Acres and 20 Enslaved Persons for Sale
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Title
640 Acres and 20 Enslaved Persons for Sale
Subject
Florida State University
Enslavement
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Race Relations
Description
640 acres and 20 enslaved persons for sale-18 of which are "good effective hands." Repeated on November 26th, 1836.
Creator
Hackley, R.J.
Source
Original digital item located in America's Historical Newspapers (The Floridian and Advocate) that can be accessed with an account at lib.fsu.edu
Publisher
Floridian and Advocate
Date
1836-01-23
Contributor
Patterson, Kathryn
Rights
These materials were gathered together as part of an effort between FSU's History Department and FSU's Libraries to assemble materials related to the history of race relations in Tallahassee. The user is responsible for investigating any copyright restrictions on further use of these materials outside this digital collection. https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en
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“Plantations For Sale, on a long credit. The subscriber offers for sale 640 acres of LAND, lying within two miles of Monticello, 210 acres of which is cleared and under a good fence, a good Gin-House, Gin, Packing Screw, Dwelling House, Stables and Negro-Houses. I will also sell 1000 bushels Corn, 10,000 lbs. Fodder, two Mules & three Horses, Plantation Tools, &c. Also, 1580(?) acres of LAND lying on Mickasooky Lake, 420 of which is cleared, & Corn, Fodder, Oats, Mules, and Horses. The most of the above Tracts of Land are first rate Hammock(?), and the cleared land will produce from 1000lbs. to 1800lbs. of Cotton per acre. -R.J. Hackley. Jan. 10, 1836. P.S. I will also sell 20 negroes, 18 of which are good effective hands."
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Citation
Hackley, R.J., “640 Acres and 20 Enslaved Persons for Sale,” A Community History of Race Relations: Tallahassee & Florida State University , accessed May 3, 2024, https://historyracerelationstlh.omeka.net/items/show/1434.