Overview

Location

Phillips Co., AK

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Apperson

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

EM Apperson Plantation (Shelby Co., TN)

Associated Free Persons

• E.M. Apperson - owner of Council Bend Plantation and EM Apperson Plantation

Associated Enslaved Persons

1859 Runaway Slave Ad

Memphis Daily Appeal, Dec. 23, 1859

"Ranaway from my plantation in Council Bend, Ark., on the 29th November..."

• Jobe - age 19 or 20; "black color, weighs about 180 pounds, very likely, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and worsted cap"
• Washington (Wash) - age 21 or 22; "very black, fine teeth, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and white wool hat, and weighs about 150 or 160 pounds, very likely"

1860 Slave Schedule, E.M. Apperson

From the 1860 US Federal Slave Schedule, Phillips Co., AK

• 116 slaves, 24 slave houses

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Runaway Slave Blog. Naomi Van Tol. http://spiny.com/runaway/
• US Federal Slave Schedule, Phillips Co., AK, 1860

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