Sujet

L. Warren Nelson authorizing his Attorney to receive any and all money from the State..., 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

L. Warren Nelson authorizing his Attorney to receive any and all money from the State of South Carolina for his slave Laurence/Laurens lost in the public service for the Confederate State, 1864. Laurens '...was retained in the service of the Confederate States...during which time...he sickened and died of Congestive fever...the said slave was worth...two thousand dollars'.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A18_214

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

25,8Mo (689,4Ko) / 20,7cm x 31,3cm / 2443 x 3695 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black library employment job health government country occupation color death fever war text location century profession document disease ownership property concept blacksmith African American African-American B&W owner afro-american slavery lettering public library MONOCHROME slave United States of America Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black American Civil War New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage American America USA Confederate States of America malaria 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