A negro named Sawney, belonging to Constable Butler was sold yesterday by Messrs. Pulliam and Davis for the sun of $580. He is one of those whom “Red Boot” Smith boxed up some years ago for exportation to a free state, and for which exploit that individual is no serving out his term of punishment in the penitentiary of Virginia. Sawney, we understand, goes to Atlanta, Ga. Messrs. Pulliam and Davis, a short time since, sold seventeen negroes, including two or three youths, for $14,155.
SOURCE: Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Virginia, Wednesday Morning, June 4, 1856, p. 3
