Elizabeth Govan Hill

Item

Name
Elizabeth Govan Hill
Given Name
Elizabeth Govan
Family Name
Hill
Sex
Female
Occupation
Hiring
Slave Trade
Description
Elizabeth Govan Hill was a white enslaver. She is recorded having enslaved at least twenty-nine men, women, and children. Records show that she trafficked and sold people she claimed in ownership to John Staige Davis. Davis also assisted Hill in contracting the labor of the people she enslaved.

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