Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States

Uncle Charlie, as he is known among his own color and the white people who know him, told the writer he was born at Petersburg Va. , and his parents, Aaron and Louisa, were owned by a Mr. J. H. White, who had a store in the city, but no plantation. His parents had three children, two boys and one girl, and when Uncle Charlie was about ten years of age, he was sold by Mr. White to a speculator named Jones who brought him to Mobile. He recalled being placed on the block, at the slave mart on Royal and State streets, and the anxiety of hearing the different people bidding for him, and being finally sold to a Mr. Jason Harris, who lived near Newton Station in Jasper County, Miss.