(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION CUBA) A freed slave manumits his own

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--CUBA.) A freed slave manumits his own enslaved woman. One manuscript page, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, signed by a clerk and docketed on verso; stitch holes, minor toning. Cuba, 9 September 1873

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A "freed brown man, native of Africa" frees a 27-year old woman for the price of 250 pesos. "Joaquin Portuondo, moreno libre, natural de Africa . . . hando libertad a una esclava de su propriedad nombrada Dominga, morena colorada criolla de vientey siete años de edad por la cantidad de doscientos cincuenta pesos a mil doscientos cincuenta pesetas."