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735. SLAVE ACCUSED OF KILLING HER CHILD AND THREATENING OTHERS Good content A.L.S., 2pp. 4to., [n.p.], Jan. 14, 1858 in which J. H. Darden In part: "...I drop you a line in reference to the servant girl Hannah. I wrote to her former owner about buying her children...She gives Hannah a bad name...she steals and lies...accuses her of having hit her oldest child Tandanum enough to put it asleep so that it never awoke again, says the two now in her possession would have probably shared the same fate if precautions had not been used...she accuses Hannah of having told me a multitude of things against her former owners of which she is altogether innocent...She admits Hannah has never been abused..." Very good. $150-200

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