Sujet

Payment receipt for the hire of a woman enslaved and owned by Edward Rouzee, April 14, 1804. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

This document is from a collection of financial papers related to the plantation operations of several generations of the Rouzee Family in Essex County, Virginia. The papers date from the 1790s through 1860. A payment receipt for Mr. Edward Rouzee from Mrs. Mary Smith regarding the amount of twenty (20) dollars paid by Mrs. Smith for "services rendered to a negro woman belonging to said Rouzee." The document is signed in the bottom left corner by an agent for Mary Smith. The document is handwritten in brown ink. The paper has been folded once vertically and once horizontally.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_240

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

231,9Mo (7,2Mo) / 106,6cm x 54,5cm / 12591 x 6437 (300dpi)

Mots clés

agriculture education country finance museum Virginia plantation location century accounts document ownership property accounting African American African-American B&W owner afro-american slavery records slave slaves United States of America Smithsonian Institution 19th century black & white black and white B W Educational Institution nineteenth century heritage American America USA scientific institution TGN ink united states Unknown Ink on paper cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art enslaved person enslaved people National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC receipts financial records