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Title: Fugitive Slave woman on the run, North Carolina letter Author: Place: North Carolina Publisher: Date: 1825 Description: Thomas S. Land . Autograph Letter Signed. Currituck Court House, North Carolina, June 14, 1825, 2pp.+ stampless address leaf. To Daniel Gould, Salem, Massachusetts. "...I have not been able to sell any of the property you left for me to make sail of…it appears that there is no person wishes to buy that will pay any thing for it…the negroe woman has not been caught yet but I expect we shall be able to get her soon. it is said she and her husband is parted. the child is yet at fathers. she has had another I understand since she has been out which will likely increase the value of her. negroes have risen some since you left here… I have sold a few pair moor of Col Spragues shoes” [for $4.64]. Land was a young farmer and merchant, son of a wealthy plantation owner, probably here acting as executor of the estate of Daniel Gould’s brother, who had died prematurely after moving to North Carolina from Massachusetts and marrying Land’s sister. As a New England Yankee, Gould, himself a prosperous farmer, may have looked with silent distaste on his late brother’s slave-holding and perhaps squirmed at Land’s matter-of-fact description of the escaped slave who had left her child behind, reportedly giving birth to another, which would increased her value as property, no different from a pairs of shoes. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276166