Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Confederate "Certificate of Medical Examination of Slaves." Printed form completed in manuscript, 8 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; minor wear. Macon, MS, 11 February 1865

Additional Details

Document issued during the last months of the war by the Confederate Medical Board for the Examination of Conscripts, certifying that the slave Tom, aged 39, of the estate of Joseph May in Noxubee County, Mississippi, is "capable of performing field labor, and consider or pronounce him sound in mind and body except a bad set of teeth." It is signed by the attending physicians. We trace no other examples of this form (completed or otherwise) at auction.