(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION) Freedmans Contract

Sale 2171 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 5,040

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

VIRTUAL SLAVERY FOR A FREEDMAN (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) Freedman's Contract. Printed folio document, accomplished by hand; many clauses crossed out; with extensive manuscript notes on both sides; revenue stamp; creases where folded; some portions of the ink faded but still legible. China Grove Plantation: Mississippi, 1866

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

A printed Freedmen''s Bureau contract with virtually all of the protections crossed out. A clear example of the reprehensible manner in which plantation owners took advantage of ex-slaves who found themselves "free" but with nothing to eat and no place to go. For example: the paragraphs regarding the number of hours that one could work in a day have been crossed out; as are the stipulations on the kind of work the freedman could be asked to do. On the reverse, the ex-slave is docked for sick time and so on. Ironically, the China Grove Plantation was purchased in 1869 by August Mazique, one of the owner''s ex-slaves. Today, China Grove Plantation is a tourist attraction.