This small collection contains records of slave certificates from 1858-1871 and is part of a book labeled “Record Book Adams County” that was found in the basement of the Adams County Courthouse in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1999. These certificates where required by law for all the slaves that were brought to Mississippi from any other state for the purpose of being sold and cover the period from 1858 through 1861. It was to certify that no slave was guilty of any felony or crime and that they were lawfully possessed by the person offering them for sale.