Fancy girl
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A fancy girl, sometimes called a fancy maid, was a young woman of African descent with a lighter complexion sold with the intent of forced prostitution and concubinage. This sale was often referred to
1806 bill of sale for a girl, Clary, purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds
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Rice C. Ballard
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Rice Carter Ballard was a 19th-century American slave trader, plantation owner, and cotton merchant. His slave trading partners were Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. After leaving the slave-trading b
Fancy girl
…American slave trader also advertised fancy boys for sale. Fancy girls were purchased and sold within the southern United States by slave traders such as Rice C. Ballard and Robert Jardine. The young women were often sold at auctions with other enslaved people, though they were kept in separate quarters from them. It…
Franklin & Ballard trafficked Peter to Mississippi in the fall of 1835