On 4 February 1850, Michael Holt served as security for Narcissa Dawson, who had purchased a mother and child, Lucy and Anelizer, from Moye & Adams, “traders in negroes,” with a note for $475.00 payable in 12 months. Deed Book 14, page 256, Chancery Clerk’s Office, Monroe County, Mississippi.
Wyatt Moye and Robert S. Adams formed their slave-dealing partnership in Edgecombe (now Wilson) County, specializing in hauling enslaved people from North Carolina to the slave markets of Aberdeen County in western Mississippi. I don’t know where Lucy and Anna Eliza fell into their hands or what became of them.
Dads, imagine your wife and child being sold away…….or maybe you had been sold away from them earlier. My, my, my.