Isaac Neville

Neville was possibly born in Mississippi to parents originally from North Carolina.{{Cite web |title=Brasfield-Brassfield genealogies / Compiled and edited by Annabelle C. McAllister and Edward N. McAllister. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89062856786?urlappend=%3Bseq=671 |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=HathiTrust |page=655 | hdl=2027/wu.89062856786?urlappend=%3Bseq=671 |language=en}} He may have been a resident of Marshall, Mississippi in 1845.{{citation |work=Mississippi, State Archives, Various Records, 1820–1951 |via=FamilySearch |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WDX7-6YN2 |title=Entry for Isaac Neville, 1845}}

His partners, at various times, were Andrew J. Cunningham,{{Cite news |date=1881-09-16 |title=Chancery Sale of Real Estate for Partition |pages=3 |work=Memphis Daily Appeal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/memphis-daily-appeal-chancery-sale-of-re/136092774/ |access-date=2023-12-01}} Damascus G. James, and William M. James.{{Cite book |last=Keating |first=John M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGVAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374 |title=History of the City of Memphis Tennessee: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers |date=1888 |publisher=D. Mason & Company |pages=374 |language=en}}{{cite book |last=Mooney |first=Chase C. |title=Slavery in Tennessee |publisher=Negro Universities Press |year=1971 |isbn= |edition=Reprint |series=Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 17 |location=Westport, Conn. |pages=50 |language=en-us |chapter=Chapter Two: Hire, Sale, Theft and Flight of Slaves |oclc=609222448 |author-link=Chase C. Mooney |orig-date=1957 |chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000002020263&seq=45 |via=HathiTrust}} In 1857, Neville & Cunningham was one of "more than a dozen" slave trading concerns advertising in the city.{{cite book |last=Bancroft |first=Frederic |title=Slave Trading in the Old South |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |others=Introduction by Michael Tadman |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-64336-427-8 |edition=Reprint |series=Southern Classics Series |location=Columbia, S.C. |pages=251 |language=en-us |type=Original publisher: J. H. Fürst Co., Baltimore |lccn=95020493 |oclc=1153619151 |author-link=Frederic Bancroft |orig-date=1931, 1996}} Research into the health of enslaved people in Memphis, including those trafficked by the city's slave traders, found that "Mortality reports reveal there was much fictitious boasting about 'healthy' enslaved people who arrived in Memphis...[in 1857] a 14-year-old boy owned by established slave traders Neville and Cunningham died from 'lung fever.' The long travel between states was deadly for many children, and names were never given...Environmental factors (such as cold weather, high humidity, poor ventilation, unsanitary privies), and the social conditions of city life were risk factors for high mortality rates. For slave traders, the goal was to obtain Blacks for enslavement, trade, sell and make a profit. The reality was that many enslaved people were not examined carefully for 'healthiness'."{{cite thesis |last=Foster |first=Letoshia |title=Beyond What We Knew: Health and Disease Among Blacks, with an Emphasis on Women in Memphis, from Slavery to the Early Twentieth Century |year= |id=2544 |url=https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/2544 |pages=31–32 |publisher=University of Memphis |date=2020}}

Isaac Neville was the listed owner of 212 and 214 Main Street in Memphis in 1877 when that structure was set on fire by an arsonist.{{Cite news |date=1877-05-04 |title=At 3 o'clock yesterday morning |pages=4 |work=The Daily Memphis Avalanche |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-memphis-avalanche-at-3-oclock/136094995/ |access-date=2023-12-04}} A building that had once housed Ike Neville's slave jail was still standing in April 1921, when it was described as "a three-story brick building standing on the north of Adams, west of alley, between Main and Second streets. For many years prior to the war this was one of the important slave markets of the city."{{Cite news |date=1862-08-24 |title=The New Jail |pages=3 |work=Daily Union Appeal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-union-appeal-the-new-jail/136082491/ |access-date=2023-12-01}} A building of similar description had been depicted in the Memphis Appeal of 1907 as Nathan Bedford Forrest's old mart, but Forrest's slave jail was between Second and Third.{{Cite news |date=1907-01-27 |title=The Old Negro Mart |pages=48 |work=The Commercial Appeal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commercial-appeal-the-old-negro-mart/136081600/ |access-date=2023-12-30}}

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Neville likely died in Tennessee in 1878.{{Cite news |date=1878-11-16 |title=Administrator's Sale |pages=1 |work=Public Ledger |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/public-ledger-administrators-sale/136093039/ |access-date=2023-12-01}}

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