19th Century Alabama [Slavery] - Legal Document from Lawrence County 1828

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About 19th Century Alabama [Slavery] - Legal Document

Legal document, 8 x 12.75, Lawrence County, Alabama, detailing the sale of "A negro woman named Ann and two children," dated February 1, 1828. In August of 1619, slavery was first introduced in Jamestown, one year before the Pilgrims landed. The practice grew at a rampant rate throughout the agricultural South, and the status of "slave" quickly became legally recognized. It would take over 200 years of bloody revolts, legal acts and finally, the Civil War, until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in 1865, officially abolishing slavery and acts of involuntary servitude.Document stating "James Shirley & Joshua Simmons & Abriar Hall are held and firmly bound unto James Grizard in the penal sum of two hundred and twenty four dollars and 52 cents...levied on the following goods and chattels of the above bounden James Shirley To Wit: A negro woman named Ann and two children Malone and Eliza..." Signed at the conclusion by Shirley, Simmons and Hall, and "in the presence" of the deputy Sheriff. Penned on verso: "The within bond has been forfeited by the parties failing to deliver the property therein...at the time & place therein specified, February 11, 1828, signed by Sheriff Warren and his deputy.In very good condition, with two vertical mailing folds and one central horizontal fold, uniform toning with scattered spots of darker discoloration and some creasing to the top left corner.