<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Clarke County, 33.95117, -83.36733</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Jackson County, 34.13388, -83.56635</dc:coverage><dc:date>1846/1854</dc:date><dc:description>Letter from Charles [Covey?] regarding his freedom status, he was registered as free at the Clerks Office in Milledgeville, but has been recently sold back into bondage. He states "the men that came after me took me to [Memphis] Tenessee and after whipping me untill my back was raw from my [?] to the back of my neck they then sent me to this place and sold me."  Impressment receipts for enslaved men named Carter, Alec, Daria, and impressment notice to W. A. Carr to provide 5 "able bodied male slaves". Order that John Davis be appointed guardian of Thomas Jefferson Early a person of color. Character reference for John Lee. State vs. Thompson Mcquire, offence of misdemeanor for assaulting Francis Allen a free woman of color.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jp2</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Slavery--Georgia--History</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slavery--United States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Enslaved persons--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slave bills of sale--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaveholders--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:title>Slavery - correspondence from enslaved person, freedom. Impressment receipts for enslaved men named Carter, Alec, Daria, and impressment notice to W. A. Carr to provide 5 "able bodied male slaves". Order that John Davis be appointed guardian of Thomas Jefferson Early a person of color. Character reference for John Lee. State vs. Thompson Mcquire, offence of misdemeanor for assaulting Francis Allen a free woman of color.</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>