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WHITE WOMAN SOLD AS A
SLAVE
A woman calling herself Violet Ludlow,
was arrested a few days ago and committed to jail on the supposition that
she was a runaway slave belonging to A. M. Mobley of Upshur County, Texas,
who had offered through our columns a reward of $50 for her apprehension.
On being brought before a justice of the peace, she stated that she was a
white woman and claimed her liberty. She states that she is a daughter of
Jeremiah Ludlow, of Pike County, Alabama, and was brought from that
country in 1853 by George Cope who emigrated to Texas. After arriving in
Texas, she was sold by George Cope to a Doctor Terry, in Upshur County,
Texas, and was soon after sold by him to a Mrs. Hagen or Hagens of the
same county. Violet says that she protested against each sale made of her
declaring herself a free woman. She names George Gilmer, Thomas Rogers,
John Garret and others, residents of Pike County, Alabama as person who
have known her from infancy as the daughter of one Jeremiah Ludlow and
Rene Martin, a widow at the time of her birth, and as being a free white
woman and her father a free white man. Violet is about instituting legal
proceedings for her freedom.
(National Era, December 7, 1854, page
196, transcribed by Peggy Thompson)
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