1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Commercial Transaction (Small goods)

Title: 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Commercial Transaction (Small goods)
Description: Holsey gathered and sold rags to sell to a local junk house for a total of 30 pounds.

Partial Transcript: "There was a junk house in the city where rags were sold. I gathered and saved all the rags that I could, and sold them that I might get some money with which to buy books. After weeks of toil and intense vigilance in gathering and watching for rags that belonged to the first man that laid hands upon them, I had accumulated about thirty pounds."
Event Type: Commercial transaction: Small goods
Action Status: Completed
Date: 1857
Date Certainty: Approximate
Location: Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
Outcome: 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Commercial Transaction (Small goods)
Source: Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses and Essays; Page 16
Related Event: 1857, Lucius Henry Holsey, Male, Commercial Transaction (Small goods)
Primary Participant: Lucius Henry Holsey
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver: Richard Malcolm Johnston
Author: Lucius Henry Holsey

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