1823-08-05, Unnamed, Commercial Transaction (Enslaved hire)

Title: 1823-08-05, Unnamed, Commercial Transaction (Enslaved hire)
Description: The Board of Trustees' expenditures include the payment of hiring an enslaved person, along with academic supplies for the price of $1,800.

Partial Transcript: "Expenditures: Purchase of Chemical Apparatus and agents, and for the hire of a servant... $1800.00"
Event Type: Commercial transaction: Enslaved hire
Action Status: Completed
Date: 5 August 1823
Location: University of Georgia Campus
Source: Board of Trustees Minutes, Vol. II, 1817-1835; Page 94
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Author: Asbury Hull
Leaser: University of Georgia
Organization: Board of Trustees; Committee of Finance