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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A marriage license and certificate for a freedman and freedwoman. Talbot County, GA, 1866.
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A marriage license and certificate for a freedman and freedwoman. Talbot County, GA, 1866.
8 x 10 in. partly printed marriage license and certificate (creasing, minor losses, ink smearing). Docketed verso. License authorizes the union of "Cicero Vaughn (freedman) and Ellen Gorman (freedwoman)" in holy matrimony, dated 15 September 1866. Below, the couple's marriage is certified on the same date.