How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
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Enslaved People as Collateral for Secured Loans
The two oldest children were daughters, and as they approached puberty, robert lumpkin and mary lumpkin must have teamed up to send them away to be educated. The richmond slave trader bacon tate had already moved his children with a freeack woman to salem, massachusetts. They arrived in the fall of 18 56, to a snowy, sleepy hamlet of ipswich to attend a private girls school. In some southern states, more than eight and ten mortgage secured loans utilized enslaved people for collateral.
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