[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. SLATER, Patience. Document signed by formerly enslaved woman detailing her personal history. Jefferson County, FL, 2 October 1868.

2 pages, folio, 7 3/4 x 12 1/4 in., with Jefferson County Probate Court embossed seal, old creases.

An affidavit signed by Patience Slater detailing her life in enslavement, born in Granville County, [North Carolina], she "belonged in Carolina to Amos Gooch, who sold me to Elick Hopkins, separating me from my children, who sold me to James Bockaman in Twiggs County, Georgia, by him I was sold to one Curtis Carrol who in turn sold me to Mr. Holliman with whom I lived until freedom was declared." She also details her marriages and her children. In particular, the 3 children she had with a man named Granville Bockman. She notes that had "abandon[ed] them" but "after they had been in my possession some six months the said Granville came down and claimed them & took 2 of them and we laid the matter before the Freedman's Bureau." The testimony appears to have been collected in order to resolve further disputes between Patience and Granville.

Patience notes that she was married to Jeffrey Slater "with whom I have lived ever since 1858". Both Patience and Jeffery are listed in Jefferson County, FL census from 1870, both listed as farm workers.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

This lot is located in Cincinnati.