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(LIST OF SLAVES.) Turpin and Yarborough of Richmond Virginia's list of slaves bought between the years 1851 and 1860. 4 pages, on single folio leaf, folded, handwritten on 3 pages; sign of tape removal (1 x 1.5 inches) at cen-ter folds. Richmond,

(LIST OF SLAVES.) Turpin and Yarborough of Richmond Virginia's list of slaves bought between the years 1851 and 1860. 4 pages, on single folio leaf, folded, handwritten on 3 pages; sign of tape removal (1 x 1.5 inches) at cen-ter folds. Richmond, Virginia, 1860 E400/600 List of 71 slaves bought by Turpin and Yarborough Tobacco Company, Richmond over a nearly ten-year period. At left of their names are dates bought; at right, from whom and price paid; at far right in space for remarks, some are listed "dead," others "sold," and one "drowned." Lists of plantation slaves are common; a list of tobacco company slave labor in the heart of tobacco country is not.

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