Totten, Joseph Silas, 1806-1861
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Totten, Joseph Silas, 1806-1861
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Joseph Silas Totten (1806-1861) of Yanceyville, N.C., was a slave trader, planter, and president of the Yanceyville Plank Road Company. He and Allen Gunn of Yanceyville traded under the name of Totten & Gunn, and Totten traveled the South in his business of speculating in slaves. Among the children he and his wife Amanda McAlpin Totten (1821-1890) had was a son, Leroy Logan M. Totten (1843-1903), who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2009105050
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Slavery
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African Americans
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slave bills of sale
Slave trade
Slave traders
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Caswell County (N.C.)
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North Carolina
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Yanceyville (N.C.)
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Mississippi
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Southern States
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