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[Letter] 1829 Oct. 29, Alexandria, Virginia [to] David Burford, Nashville, Tennessee / J[ourdan] M. Saunders

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This document is a letter dated October 29, 1829 to David Burford from his business partner Jourdan Saunders. Saunders was on a slave trading trip and wrote about one slave who cut off all the fingers on his right hand and another who ran away. He informed Burford that the trip would not render a profit unless he recovered the runaway slave.
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  1. American History
  2. Letters
  3. Slave Trading
  4. Slaver
  5. Tennessee

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