1849 BLACK SEMINOLE SLAVE. Slave Owner Sues Government for Payment for Seminole Slave Interpreter. Biography Limited Edition 35/160

Limited Edition 35/160

[In his own hand

Boreham fame]

some light rubbing at base of spine

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1849 BLACK SEMINOLE SLAVE. Slave Owner Sues Government for Payment for Seminole Slave Interpreter. Biography Limited Edition 35/160An 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.