This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...that they be exported within a month. Further on it is again stated, that these captives had been accordingly sold, and singly, except a woman who had been put up with her child. Five others were sold in the same month-in like manner, and brought one hundred and twenty-two pounds and five shillings the entire gang. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...that they be exported within a month. Further on it is again stated, that these captives had been accordingly sold, and singly, except a woman who had been put up with her child. Five others were sold in the same month-in like manner, and brought one hundred and twenty-two pounds and five shillings the entire gang. The traders and agents were prohibited from purchasing any male slave older than fourteen years; in a short time, this restriction was extended to thirty years, so much had the business of the traffic increased. No agent was allowed to trade on his own account, not even to receive a present from the Indians, except in behalf of the public. The following were tln; rates of barter agreed upon by Col. Moore and the Conjurer: A gun was to be equal in value to thirty-live skins; one yard of stronds cloth to eight skins; a white dulhl blanket to sixteen skins; a hatchet to three; a narrow hoe to three; a broad hoe to five; thirty bullets to one; a pair of scissors to one; a knife and string of beads to one each; twelve flints to one; a laced broadcloth coat to thirty; an axe to five; a pistol to twenty; a sword to ten; a shirt to five; a piece of steel to one; a calico petticoat to fourteen; and a red girdle to two. The first adventure, in trade, made by the Board wijj the Cherokees was in March of 1716, and by the following November, so greatly had the traffic enlarged that Hastings requested of them to be allowed the services of five assistants instead of two. A laced hat brought readily, at Savannah Town, eight buck-skins; a calico petticoat twelve; and so great was the demand for salt, gunpowder, tea-kettles and looking-glasses, that the Commissioners fixed no price upon them, leaving the traders to exact as much as the savages were willing to pay fo.
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