Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Rosner in Louisiana
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Rosner in Louisiana

Samuel F. Smith, American, 1814 - 1890 · 1862

ink on paper
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

A preprinted bill of sale with handwritten text for an enslaved woman named Rosner in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. The single page document is folded to create four pages. The document records that Rosner, a woman about 49 to 50 years of age, was sold by Aaron L. Salter to John Gallaspy for $450 on terms of 8% interest.

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