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Title: Spire Hagerty's Description of Stolen Slaves (1/2)
Author: Spire Hagerty
Date: 1838
Collection: Rebecca McIntosh Hagerty Papers

Hagerty's description of his stolen slaves. "The above negros were stolen from my plantation by a creek Indian. . .Jack, Jeffrey, Lucy, Sambo, and Carolina." Rebecca McIntosh Hagerty married Spire Hagerty, owner of a plantation near Marshall, Texas. After Spire's death, Mrs. Hagerty continued to acquire control of slaves and land and became one of the richest planters in antebellum Texas.

Title: Manifest of Slaves
Date: 1838
Collection: Ashbel Smith Papers

A ship’s manifest from the Port of New Orleans to the Port of Galveston listing four slaves. Ashbel Smith, a medical doctor who had been surgeon general of the Republic of Texas, signed the manifest.

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