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Moye & Adams ply their trade.

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.

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