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- Agreement for John Thomson to be Apprenticed to Shipmaster Robert Emery for Six Years, September 11, 1794 -
- September 11, 1794
- Collections - Artifact
Agreement for John Thomson to be Apprenticed to Shipmaster Robert Emery for Six Years, September 11, 1794
- Indenture for "...Colored Child Named Maria,." December 21, 1865 - Immediately after the Civil War, defeated white Southerners tried to remake the South as they had known it before the war. With slavery abolished, some whites devised labor contracts which forced African Americans back into near-slave conditions. This indenture, imposed on "a poor orphan colored child," required her to work for a white master until she came of age.
- December 21, 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Indenture for "...Colored Child Named Maria,." December 21, 1865
Immediately after the Civil War, defeated white Southerners tried to remake the South as they had known it before the war. With slavery abolished, some whites devised labor contracts which forced African Americans back into near-slave conditions. This indenture, imposed on "a poor orphan colored child," required her to work for a white master until she came of age.
- Indenture for "...Colored Children Named William, Dennis & Henry," July 20, 1866 - Immediately after the Civil War, defeated white Southerners tried to remake the South as they had known it before the war. With slavery abolished, some whites devised labor contracts which forced African Americans back into near-slave conditions. This indenture, imposed on three orphaned children, required them to work for a white master until they came of age.
- July 20, 1866
- Collections - Artifact
Indenture for "...Colored Children Named William, Dennis & Henry," July 20, 1866
Immediately after the Civil War, defeated white Southerners tried to remake the South as they had known it before the war. With slavery abolished, some whites devised labor contracts which forced African Americans back into near-slave conditions. This indenture, imposed on three orphaned children, required them to work for a white master until they came of age.