Manuscripts Relating to Slavery

: Affidavit of Nathan H. Gartin; Two-page affidavit allowing Nathan H. Gartin to seek and arrest the slave Jack in Marion County, Kentucky.

: [Affidavit for the Brig Orange]; Petition for insurance funds for the Brig Orange after wrecking upon a reef "about three mites to the Eastward of Man of War Kry near the Island of Abaca, one of the Bahama Islands" after leaving the port of Havana [Cuba] on March 6, 1799, carrying 120 slaves.

: Affidavit of George Ray; Two-page affidavit allowing George Ray to seek and arrest the slaves Marcus, Francis, John, Mandy, and Henry, in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

: Affadavit of Alexander McKinnzy; Two-page affidavit of Alexander McKinnzy regarding the purchase and state import of one slave named Anny and one slave named John, in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

: Affidavit of Jesse Toms; Two-page affidavit of Jesse Toms regarding the ownership of one slave boy named Charles and one slave boy named Nelson in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

: [Affidavit by John Duncan accounting damages sustained to the Brig Othello during passage to Charleston, South Carolina]; Affidavit submitted by John Duncan, giving account of damages sustained to the Brig Othello during passage to Charleston, South Carolina, with a shipment of slaves.