(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION) LOUISIANA Henry Pory

Sale 2408 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 531

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

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) LOUISIANA. Henry Pory freedman and Catherine Pory, freedwoman, unable to raise their six year old daughter Sarinia, apprentice her to T.C. Mitchell for a period of 12 years. Large folio sheet, folded to form four tall pages; written on two sides, docketed on a third. New Orleans, LA, late 1860's

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A very detailed document, assuring the parents of Sarinia, "Being solicitors for the welfare of their daughter Sarinia. . ." that not only will she be learning the occupation of house servant; cooking sewing etc; but assuring them too that she will be tutored "in the elements of the English language, to wit, in reading writing and arithmetic. . ." From the language of this agreement, it is implicit that Mr. Mitchell was acquainted with these poor people, who were forced to give up their child.