Seven enslaved people, including Dinah, were mentioned in the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property.
Partial Transcript: " It is agreed that the value of the lands, water privileges, mills, factory buildings,
as they stood on the first day of January last together with the Smith's tools, wagon + team, and the stock of wool, also seven negroes viz. Ezekiel, a man, Dinah, his wife with their two children, Bob, Cuffee + Charles."
Seven enslaved people, including Ezekiel, were mentioned in the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property.
Partial Transcript: " It is agreed that the value of the lands, water privileges, mills, factory buildings,
as they stood on the first day of January last together with the Smith's tools, wagon + team, and the stock of wool, also seven negroes viz. Ezekiel, a man, Dinah, his wife with their two children, Bob, Cuffee + Charles."
Dunmon, an man enslaved by Sarah Harris, was offered for hire to the Board of Trustees.
Partial Transcript: "General Harris, laid on the table a note addressed to him from Mrs. Sarah Harris, in relation to the hire of her man Dunmon which was referred for settlement to the Prudential Committee."
The Board of Trustees' expenditures include the payment of $130 for an enslaved person and fire wood.
Partial Transcript: "That the permanent annual Expenditure of the Institution consists principally of. Servant hire & fire wood 130 "
During the 1837 financial panic, John A. Cobb sold or surrendered his enslaved people to his creditors, receiving $90,000.
Partial Transcript: "Great distress ensued and some of our wealthiest men came out of the wreck with nothing but their debts. One of these was Col. John A. Cobb who had become heavily involved in security debts and who surrendered all of a large property to his creditors. His negroes brought $90,000 — even at panic prices."
During the financial panic of 1837, expenses went up and profits went down, and it affected Athens, Georgia greatly. The price for an enslaved person dropped from $1200 to $200 to $300.
Partial Transcript: "The attendance of students in the University fell off, the banks stopped specie payment, expenses went up and profits went down. Cotton went down to five cents, negroes who cost $1200, were sold for from $200 to $300, and good land was offered at $2 and $3 per acre."
Peter, an enslaved man owned by John Talmadge, ran away.
Partial transcript: "a mulatto man, Peter, a Blacksmith, 27 or 28 years old, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, most of his teeth lost by mercury when small, a scar on his back by a heavy blister... well known as a workman to all of the students in this College and graduates for the last 14 years."
The Board of Trustees' expenditures include the payment of $75 for enslaved persons.
Partial Transcript: "Estimated Expenditures: Servant Hires... 75.00 "
The Board of Trustees hired enslaved men to repair the outside of the new academic building, and paint the President's House and the Chapel Cupola.
Partial Transcript: "Resolved That the Prudential Committee be directed without delay, to exploy (sic) able workman to repair the outside of the new college building in such a manner as they may deem most proper, and also procure a Painter & have the President’s House and the Chapel Cupola repainted."
Enslaved men repaired the new college building, and paint the President's House and the Chapel Cupola.
Partial Transcript: "Resolved That the Prudential Committee be directed without delay, to [employ] able workman to repair the outside of the new college building in such a manner as they may deem most proper, and also procure a Painter & have the President’s House and the Chapel Cupola repainted."
The Board of Trustees' expenditures include the payment of $160.00 for enslaved persons.
Partial Transcript: "The Expenditures have been met as follows: Servant Hire... 160.00"
The old town hall's bell warned enslaved persons of the curfew at 9 o'clock every night.
Partial Transcript: "Its bell, which now calls the children of the city schools to their daily tasks, rang every night at 9 o'clock to warn the negro of the curfew hour, and clanged the alarm of fire to rouse the citizens to their safety."
Enslaved persons were not allowed to own dogs.
Partial Transcript: "Some of the strictures on negro slaves seem funny, not to say harsh, to the present generation. For instance, no negro was allowed to own a dog."
If an enslaved person was confined by the Town Marshals, the owner must pay $1.00 or the slave would be whipped.
Partial Transcript: "It was discretionary with the Town Marshal to whip or confine all negroes found on the streets after nine o'clock, and the owner of slaves confined must pay $1.00 to the Marshal or have the slave whipped."
If enslaved persons were out past the 9 o'clock curfew, they were subject to whipping or confinement.
Partial Transcript: "It was discretionary with the Town Marshal to whip or confine all negroes found on the streets after nine o'clock"
An enslaved girl of 18 years of age was sold as a house servant or a farmhand by Andrew Jackson Lamar, an alumnus of the University of Georgia.
Partial Transcript: "A first rate bricklayer; also a blacksmith, who has served his six years' apprenticeship. Also, two likely boys, suitable for farming. And a likely girl, about 18 years of age, suitable either for a family servant, or a field hand. The above negroes to be hired for one year from the first of January. Apply to Andrew J. Lamar."
An enslaved man was hired out as a bricklayer by Andrew J. Lamar.
Partial Transcript: "A first rate bricklayer; also a blacksmith, who has served his six years' apprenticeship. Also, two likely boys, suitable for farming. And a likely girl, about 18 years of age, suitable either for a family servant, or a field hand. The above negroes to be hired for one year from the first of January. Apply to Andrew J. Lamar."
An enslaved man was hired out as a blacksmith after serving a six year apprenticeship by Andrew J. Lamar.
Partial Transcript: "A first rate bricklayer; also a blacksmith, who has served his six years' apprenticeship. Also, two likely boys, suitable for farming. And a likely girl, about 18 years of age, suitable either for a family servant, or a field hand. The above negroes to be hired for one year from the first of January. Apply to Andrew J. Lamar."
Two enslaved men were hired out as farmhands by Andrew J. Lamar.
Partial Transcript: "A first rate bricklayer; also a blacksmith, who has served his six years' apprenticeship. Also, two likely boys, suitable for farming. And a likely girl, about 18 years of age, suitable either for a family servant, or a field hand. The above negroes to be hired for one year from the first of January. Apply to Andrew J. Lamar."
Coley, an enslaved man owned by Thomas W. Harris, ran away.
Partial Transcript: "My man Coley, well known [in] Athens, Lawrenceville, Gwinnett, Monroe, and Walton county. Whoever will deliver him to me, shall be well paid, and all expenses [paid]... Coley is about thirty years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, rather yellowish complexion, a little stoop-shouldered, smiling countenance when spoken too, fond of drink and dress."
An enslaved female became involved in a student's plot to give an item to a female at the Female Academy.
Partial Transcript: "It was rumored that he had handed to a servant of Mr. Hunt's a number of obscene & lascivious plates to be exhibited to the young ladies of the Female academy - Harper said he knew to whom Gray had lent them, but was unwilling to name him, for if he did the person could only clear himself by getting into a difficulty equally bad, viz. that of having given them to a servant girl for the purpose of showing them to her young mistress."
An enslaved female was whipped because of her involvement in a University student's plan to give a obscene plate to a female at the Female Academy.
Partial Transcript: "It was rumored that he had handed to a servant of Mr. Hunt's a number of obscene & lascivious plates to be exhibited to the young ladies of the Female academy, that they had actually been exhibited--that the servant when whipped had given the name of Mr. Harper as the person whom she was told handed them to her"
Patrick, an enslaved man, was hired as a laborer to work in the Botanical Garden for $100.
Partial Transcript: "Resolved that the negro man Patrick be retained as [laborer] in the Botanical Garden for the ensuing year at the same rates as for the present, to wit, $100.00"
Patrick, an enslaved man, was a laborer in the Botanical Garden.
Partial Transcript: "Resolved that the negro man Patrick be retained as labourer in the Botanical Garden for the ensuing year at the same rates as for the present, to wit, $100.00"
