1861-006: Admr of Lucy Dickinson v. James B. Cason

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Lucy Dickinson was the aunt of James B. Cason. Lucy was said to be a weakly woman, illiterate and under his influence. James was said to be a gambler and drinker. John was said to verbally abuse Dickinson and had forged Virginia Central Railroad stock in her name. Dickinson also owned a considerable number of enslaved persons who helped her manage her plantation known as "Queens." These enslaved individuals used to drive a cart and team in hauling coal and wood and going to the mill. Cason considered them "burdensome, unmanageable and unproductive" primarily because Dickinson was said to "indulge" the people she enslaved and managed them through leniency. Cason sold and hired out a number of these individuals for money, such as Fanny, who was sold to Fendall Carpenter, a slave trader from Tennessee.

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