sentences:  As an adult, Freeman farmed using slave labor.In 1850, he and/or his father owned 82 slaves in Jones County, Georgia and 10 slaves in adjoining Pike County.By 1860 this James C. Freeman lived near Flat Shoals in Meriwether County, Georgia (adjacent to Pike County) and owned 16 slaves (8 of them noted as fugitives) as well as rented rooms to a local grocer and two clerks.