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1862 sheriff's receipt for costs in apprehending a runaway slave in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

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1862 Sheriff's Receipt for Costs In Apprehending a Runaway Slave In Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. . 1862. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54160.

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(1862). 1862 sheriff's receipt for costs in apprehending a runaway slave in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54160.

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1862 Sheriff's Receipt for Costs In Apprehending a Runaway Slave In Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 1862. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/54160.

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  • Sheriff's receipt for costs in apprehending and keeping a runaway slave named John, property of Robert Cook. The receipt lists the individual fees while the slave was in custody, for example, "Whipping Slave…$1.00". The receipt is dated August 21, 1862.
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  • This digital object is the property of the Samford University Library and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Special Collection, Samford University Library. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this or other images in this collection, please contact the Samford University Special Collection department at scdept@samford.edu