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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03434.23 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 1815-1860 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 13 cm, Width: 17.5 cm Order a Copy

Listing the values of nine enslaved people, all worth between ten and sixty dollars. Title from docket.

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