“The death of Patience, a Negro woman”

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[AFRICAN-AMERICAN]. Legal Document, 1839, Lawrence County, Alabama.

Inventory #20766 Price: $450

Summoning “a respectable freeholder” to appear before Justice of the Peace “to enquire (into) the death of Patience, a Negro woman, whose body was found, and then and there to certify” what has been done in the matter “on behalf of the State.”

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