Elizabeth
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Name
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Elizabeth
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Sex
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Female
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Freedom Status
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Enslaved until the end of the Civil War when she was taken by her mother to Tuscaloosa
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Basil Manly Diary VI (1858-1878) image 84, Aug 26, 1865
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"Yesterday, James informed me, by letter, that a fire had broken out, on E. Collier Foster’s land; & that several of the negroes had gone home from the fire to dinner, contrary to his express order. He came home intending to punish them. Meeting with Binkey first, he began upon her; who resisted & fought. She left the plantation, & James sent her children & things, by a cart to town. But Binkey had reached town, her mother’s house, before the cart arrived with her children. I saw the man who attends to the freedmen’s affairs this morning; he promises to send a man down there this afternoon to see to the matter.
We will not suffer Binkey to appear on the place again. She left, of her own accord on frid. afternoon."
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Basil Manly Diary VI (1858-1878) image 85, Sept 2, 1865 (Leaving Manly's plantation for Tuscaloosa with her mother)
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"I have ascertained that 24 of my negroes have left me, & taken their freedom, under the late military order of the U.S. Authorities – viz. Mary & her family, Binkey & her three children (Elizabeth, [Julia Ann?], & Larrey), Arthur, Oliver, & John. William, his wife Sabra, & their two children (Alice & Margaret). Archy or Tom & his wife Priscilla, & their two children, (Richard & Willis). Rebecca & her two children (Somerset & Dennis) Andrew (father of Binkey’s children) Alick (Alexander) & Ann. = 22 Patsey, Henderson (son of Patesey) = 24 to this date."
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Enslaver
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Basil Manly (Second President of the University of Alabama 1837-1855)