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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION FLORIDA.) Partially printed document, accomplished by hand. Indenture to "bind out as an apprentice a poor orphan colored boy about nine years named Frank Donahue" to Sallie E. McCall. Small folio, written on one side and docketed on the reverse. Signatures and seals at the bottom of the page. Gadsden County, Florida, December 27th, 1866
An unusual Reconstruction contract from Florida in which a Ms. Sallie McCall takes on a "poor orphan colored boy," nine years old, named Frank, indenturing him until he is twenty-one years of age. She promises to "teach the said Frank the art or avocation of farming, and also to teach or have him taught reading and writing." She promises "humane treatment, a sufficiency of food, and raiment during said period." The Bureau of Refugees and the Freedman's Bureau designed contracts such as this with the terms somewhat favorable to the apprentice, unlike sharecropper contracts drawn up by old slave owners that literally placed ex-slaves back into slavery.
