1849 BLACK SEMINOLE SLAVE. Slave Owner Sues Government for Payment for Seminole Slave Interpreter. Congregational An absolutely superb c

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The present was issued just before his death and is very scarce on the market

Alonzo Ames Miner (President of Tufts College and ardent abolitionist)

1849 BLACK SEMINOLE SLAVE. Slave Owner Sues Government for Payment for Seminole Slave Interpreter. Congregational An absolutely superb cAn absolutely fascinating document in which the slave owner of the famed Pacheco sues the Federal Government for the lease and loss of his slave during the Dade Massacre of 1849. Luis Pacheco remains one of the most fascinating persons of the era. Born in 1800 on a New Switzerland, Georgia plantation owned by Francis Philip Fatio, Pacheco's father was a highly skilled enslaved person whose labor as a carpenter and boat builder were sought regionally.