[ Autographs ] BEATING OF SLAVES Unusual A.D.S. 1p. sm. folio, Maury Co., Tenn., January, 1845, in which one James Douglas is indicted forbeating a slave named Washington, in part: "...James Douglas...did make an assault upon the slave Washington with switches, sticks, rocks clubs, staves, and boards...wantonly, wickedly, cruelly...greatly to the injury of the said slave...". Very good to fine.