Letter from John D. Frazier to his lawyer Joseph Wickes
Document
CH_CA_2022_IC_005_052
Institutional Collections
Letter informing Wickes that the sheriff took his enslaved boy, Richard, to have him appraised, three hundred dollars, Frazier claimed the boy was fifteen but Terry Boyer claimed he was thirteen and worth no more than sixty dollars. Frazier wants the case to go to court. Along with the dispute over value Frazier says he took Richard from Boyer to protect him from "Blind John" who is at Boyer's and dangerous when drunk.
MS0066-04-88-001 July 24 1837
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor, Slaves--Abuse of
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.