William R. Stevens, of Boone County, Kentucky, represents that he recently purchased from Joseph Carmena, of West Feliciana, an eleven-year-old female slave named Fanny, for the sum of $600 “in hand.” He claims that, although Fanny came “warranted” to be a slave for life and sound “in body and mind,” she is in fact “incurably diseased.” According to Stevens, Fanny suffers from what is supposed to be “Dropsy in the Chest” and is thus unfit for “all useful purposes” and "valueless." He therefore prays that the sale be “annulled and rescinded” and the purchase price returned, together with $200 for medical expenses incurred in caring for Fanny. In his related answer, Carmena claims that he gave Fanny and $300 cash to Stevens as a trade for a slave named Matilda.
Result: Denied.
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Repository: West Feliciana Parish Courthouse, St. Francisville, Louisiana
