Title

Certification of witnesses that Laurens was worth $2,000, 1863-04-06. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Certification of witnesses that Laurens was worth $2,000, 1863-04-06. The slave-owner, T. (or J.) Warren Nelson, petitioned for compensation for his slave who was pressed into military service during the US Civil War. 'Clarendon Dist. This is to certify that we the undersigned knew Laurens, slave of J. Warren Nelson of...South Carolina, and believe him to have been worth $2000 dollars...'. Laurens was impressed '...to work for one month on the military fortifications at or near Charleston [in South Carolina]...the said slave at the time of his impressment was about 20 years old, sound and healthy and a very valuable blacksmith...he was retained in the service of the Confederate States...during which time...he sickened and died of Congestive fever...'.

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Reference

HRM23A15_474

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Keywords

people black library employment job health government country occupation death fever war text location century profession document disease ownership property concept blacksmith African American African-American owner afro-american slavery lettering public library MONOCHROME slave United States of America 19th century American Civil War New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage American America USA Confederate States of America malaria petition compensation slave labour united states Unknown cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art CSA enslaved person documents 19th-century Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture congestive fever