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Price of negroes at Nashville

--A Nashville correspondent of a Yankee paper furnishes the paragraph below in regard to the price of negroes in the region where Andy Johnson rules and reigns:

‘ "Good, likely young negroes" used to sell in these parts a few years ago at $1.200 and upward. Since the rebellion, however, that species of live stock has fearfully fallen. Last Monday Sheriff Lynett went to the house of a gentleman residing upon the Franklin pike to seize property equivalent to a debt of $1,500, and was in the act of picking out the sixth "nigger" when his owner exclaimed, "for God's sake, Lynett, ain't niggers worth any more than chickens?"

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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 3, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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