Slaves

John W. Overton estate. "When it shall be made to appear to the Board's Financial Committee that arrangements have been perfected, and the balance of the necessary funds secured to remove the Overton negroes to Liberia, the Financial Agent is ordered and directed to pay over to the Society of the American Colonization Society the sum of $500 out of the funds of the College to be applied in removing said slaves to Liberia." (Board of Trustees minutes - October 16, 1863)