Anna Greenfield (abt. 1791)

Born about 1791 in Natchez, Mississippi

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Biography

Anna Greenfield is a part of US Black heritage.

Anna Greenfield was born about 1791, possibly in Natchez, Misissippi, on the Plantation of Jesse and Elizabeth Greenfield. Slaves Of Elizabeth Greenfield

Anna as the mother of Notable Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, is written about in the origin story of her daughter. Elizabeth (Taylor) Greenfield (abt.1819-1876) ^[1] Anna, at 40 years old is documented as a slave that was manumitted in 1831 by an Anti-Slavery Organization's program, The American Colonization Society

Anna Greenfield on Slave Manifest

February 1831 'The Slave Manifest included here, is documenting the shipment of 18 slaves traveling in the Brig Bourne, from Mississippi to Virginia for manumission. The Slave Manifest consists of the 18 slaves owned by Elizabeth Greenfield. It includes "Anna" at 40 years old. ^[2]

Name: Elisabeth Greenfield (Owner)

Residence Place: Philadelphia '

All Enslaved People:

1. Quash-65 years

2. Dan-40 years

3. Phil- 35 years 4. Sancho- 35 years

5. Anna-40 years;

6. Martha- 13 years

7. Lucinda-9 years 8. William-7 years

9. Caroline- 6 years

10.Mahala- 2 years 9 months

11.Louisa-infant

12.Chloe- 35 years

13.Miles- 12 years

14.Isaiah-2 years

15.Fanny-infant

16.Harriet-32 years

17.Clayborne-2 years

18.Ann- infant''''

1831 Slave Manifest

Manumission of Anna Greenfield

On February 5, 1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The enterprise was organized by the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 by Robert Finley (1772-1817) with the mission of returning manumitted and freed in America to Africa, with aims to set up a colony in Liberia, West Africa.

2nd August 1831 Anna Greenfield one of the 18 slaves listed above were manumitted (released from slavery) by her owner, Elizabeth Greenfield, and sent to Liberia, West Africa. Going to Liberia, West Africa, was a condition of the manumission offered by the American Colonization Society. ^[3]

In the brig Criterion, which sailed from Norfolk for Liberia, on the 2nd August 1831, there were fortysix persons who had been liberated, on condition of proceeding to Liberia;

Manumission Details

18 by Mrs. Greenfield, near Natchez;

8 by Mr. Williams, of Elizabeth city, N. C.;

7 by Gen. Jacocks, of Perquimans, Ohio;

4 by Thomas Davis, Montgomery co. Miss.;

2 by two other individuals;

and 5 by some of the Quakers in North Carolina.

Of those liberated slaves, 2 only were above 40 years of age, 31 were under 35, and 22 under 20.

Brig Criterion’s company, arrived at Monrovia 30 Oct 1831

Sources

1. ↑ Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2005. pg 66
2. ↑ Original data:Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807–1860. NARA microfilm publication M1895, 30 rolls. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3. ↑ pg 31/ pg 15 on original document. Library of Congress LETTERS ON THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY; AND ON ITS PROBABLE RESULTS; The Origin of the Society; Increase of the Coloured Population; Manumission of Slaves in this country; DECLARATIONS OF LEGISLATURES, AND OTHER ASSEMBLED BODIES, IN FAVOUR OF THE SOCIETY; SITUATION OF THE COLONISTS AT MONROVIA, AND OTHER TOWNS; MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS; SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, AND COMMERCE OF LIBERIA; ADVANTAGES TO THE FREE COLOURED POPULATION, BY EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA; DISADVANTAGES OF SLAVERY TO THE WHITE POPULATION; CHARACTER OF THE NATIVES OF AFRICA BEFORE THE IRRUPTIONS OF THE BARBARIANS; EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION ON THE SLAVE TRADE, WITH A SLIGHT SKETCH OF THAT NEFARIOUS AND ACCURSED TRAFFIC. ADDRESSED TO THE HON. C. F. MERCER, M. H. R. U. S. BY M. CAREY.1832 https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbaapc/04000/04000.pdf