<petition><petition_analysis_number>20185505</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20185505</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Montgomery</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>16</file_day><file_month>2</file_month><file_year>1855</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_date_circa>y</end_date_circa><end_day>9</end_day><end_month>5</end_month><end_year>1855</end_year><ending_court>Probate</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>11</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>15</total_people_count><repository>Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama</repository><abstract>William Cunningham Jr., guardian of Jane Manning, minor, asks to sell "some portion" of her estate to provide for her education.  Cunningham seeks to sell Charlotte and her youngest child, Augustus, who is "too young to separate" from his mother.  Charlotte's two other children, Jim and John, will remain under the guardian's control.  In 1849, Charlotte was part of the estate of the late John Manning.</abstract><subjects><subject>Purchase/Sale (enslaved family)</subject><subject>Hiring value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject><subject>Family separated (Black)</subject><subject>Family kept together (Black)</subject><subject>White affection (enslaved family)</subject></subjects></petition>