(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Georgia tavern license forbidding sales

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Georgia tavern license forbidding sales to "any slave or slaves." Printed form completed in manuscript, 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; minor foxing, minimal wear. Bainbridge, GA, 12 May 1846

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Printed license signed by tavern owners Samuel B. and John Wight, in which they certify that they will not "barter, give away, sell or furnish, to any slave or slaves, any measure or quantity of distilled or spirituous or intoxicating liquors, without the verbal or written consent of the owners or employees of such slave or slaves, or without the like consent of the guardian of any free persons of color."