(TENNESSEE - FINANCIAL HISTORY - BANKING - SLAVE TRADERS?... Narratio: The Pres. [ident] & Directors of the Bank of Tennessee vs. E.F. Watkins and Joseph R. Mosby. : , . [Shelby County, Tennessee: Circuit Court, May, 1853.] Folio, 2½ pages. A complicated and typographically dense partly-printed form with numerous manuscript accomplishments in at least two different hands, also with ms. corrections or modifications to the printed portions within. Overall browning, splits along folds, one sentence with loss of text, else good. The document concerns two defendants, E.F. Watkins and Joseph R. Mosby, and a bill of payment protested for non-payment involving the Buchanan, Carrol & Company at New Orleans. Buchanan, Carrol & Company were slave traders who in turn distributed slaves into the local labor market and smaller Gulf ports, and also sent slaves out to the California gold mines. In 1860, a Joseph Mosby is enumerated as having almost thirty slaves in the fifth district in Shelby County, Tennessee. Given the several thousands of dollars at stake involved in this document, one might speculate that the two defendants borrowed money to purchase slaves and then left the Bank of Tennessee in the lurch. The family connection, if any, to John Singleton Mosby, the "Gray Ghost of the Confederacy", is unknown to this cataloger. [Phillips, "American Negro Slavery..." p. 196.] Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 141312    inquire

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