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[SLAVERY]. An autograph promissory note for two slaves to D...

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[SLAVERY]. An autograph promissory note for two slaves to David M. Hickman (1788?1851) of Missouri, 17 September 1842. One?page, oblong 12mo (127 x 197 mm), docketed on verso, old folds, signed by both slavers. ?For and in consideration of the sum of seven hundred dollars?we sell and deliver unto David M. Hickman two servants? a negro woman about twenty-four years old and Charles a niger boy about nine years, both slaves for life?.