Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Negro Sold for a Trifle. [ARTICLE]

Negro Sold for a Trifle.

The older citizens of Taylorville, Ky„ were Tuesday carried back to old slave days by a curious scene when a young negro, Sy Lewis, was sold by Auctioneer Crab to the highest bidder from the courthouse steps. Lewis was sent into servitude for a period of nine months upon being convicted of vagrancy at the last term of the circuit court A large crowd was present. Inere were few anxious to bid, but he was finally knocked down to Arch Hays, a young farmer near town, at *2.