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[Identification of item], in the Weeks Parker Slave Bill of Sale, #842-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Fort Monroe (Va.)
• Fugitive slaves--Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Parker, Weeks, fl. 1839.
• Slave bills of sale--Pennsylvania.
• Slavery--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Caricatures and cartoons.
• Slavery--Pennsylvania.

The collection is a bill of sale, July 1839, documenting the purchase of a 17-year-old male mulatto slave by John W. Suttle from Weeks Parker in Philadelphia County, Pa. Attached to the bill of sale is a cartoon, circa 1861-1865, depicting contraband slaves escaping to Union forces at Fort Monroe, Va., during the Civil War.