- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Artimesia W. Tucker testimony, 1855
- Creator:
- Tucker, Artimesia W.
- Publisher:
- Artimesia Tucker testimony, MSS 653f, James G. Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.
- Date of Original:
- 1855
- Subject:
- Slavery--Georgia--History--19th century
Slaves--Social conditions - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- testimonies
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/x-djvu
application/pdf - Description:
- This collection contains an Ante bellum document requesting Clifford Anderson and Elcania W. Tucker to transcribe and notarize the testimony of Artimesia W. Tucker in the legal case of Green J. Blake against the Southern Mutual Insurance Company. The collection also contains the handwritten transcription of her testimony dated June 5, 1855. The case was scheduled to appear before Judge James Jackson of the Superior Court of Clarke County, Georgia in June of 1855. Due to demonstrated inconvenience, Artimesia W. Tucker was unable to appear before the court in person and instead provided her written testimony. She testified that Rial, the slave living on her property, had been sick with what she believed to be consumption from October 1848 until his death several years later. She asserted that he never fully recovered from the cough he contracted in October 1848, and that this ailment often prevented him from working. In this written testimony she also states that Green J. Blake, Rial's owner, was aware of his illness and that Blake asked her not to reveal the nature or length of his sickness to the Southern Mutual Insurance Company. This company insured Rial for Green J. Blake.
Processing Information: Collection reprocessed in 2009
Artimesia W. Tucker was a resident of Macon, Georgia. There she owned property where Rial, a slave owned by a third party Green J. Blake, resided with his wife. Tucker served as a witness in a case Blake brought against the Southern Mutual Insurance Company in 1855. Additional biographical information about Artimesia W. Tucker has not been determined.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ahc0653f-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ahc/turningpoint/do:ahc0653f-001
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
This collection is open for research. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Artimesia Tucker testimony, MSS 653f, James G. Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
