Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--CUBA.) Group of 9 Cuban manumission documents. Manuscript documents, each 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, each with signatures of officials and inked official stamps; untrimmed, stitch holes in left margins, moderate browning and offsetting. Cuba, July to August 1873

Additional Details

These documents predate the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba. Each one names the slaveholder and one or more slaves: Brigida, aged 24; a family of six led by "Teresa de Africa," aged 40; José, aged 48; Lucia, aged 15; Bartolo, aged 32; Clotilde, aged 21; Adolpho Segundo, aged 37; and Celestina, aged 33. Most of them are described as "morena criolla," or "negro de Africa," but one 8-year-old girl of Chinese ancestry, Caridad Dangaud, was described as "color achinado." Also included as a tenth document is one non-manumission regarding "el moreno libre Clemente Dupuy."