Two 1857 Legal Documents Concerning a Married Woman’s Right to the Sole Ownership of an Enslaved Woman and Her Children.
Wilcox County, Alabama: November 1857. Two documents, totaling five double-sided pages measuring 8 x 13 inches and six double-sided pages measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Two legal documents from an Alabama chancery court suit brought against Susannah Nettles by her husband, James C. Nettles, concerning ownership of an enslaved.....