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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A group of 13 Cuban manumission documents, 1844-1873.
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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A group of 13 Cuban manumission documents, 1844-1873.

Disbound ledger pages recording legal events in Cuba, 8 1/2 x 12 3/8 in., (removed from ledger, chipping to edges, ink bleeding, dampstaining). All but one dated 1873 (one dated 1844), with stamped official seals. Documents record the liberation (or attempted liberation) of several individuals from enslavement, including a 15-year-old Creole girl named Lucia, a 41-year-old African woman named Catalina, a 21-year-old Creole man named Lorenzo, a 7-year-old Creole boy named Luis, and others.

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