Leasing contract for enslaved persons
- Title
- Leasing contract for enslaved persons
- Description
- Contract stating agreement to lease the labor of 17 enslaved persons for one year, to Mary A. Foy, from Graham, N.C., dated 30 March 1864. The Hiring-out system allowed a hirer to temporarily lease an enslaved person from an enslaver, generating revenue for the enslaver through the labor of the enslaved people completing the work.
- Date
- March 30, 1864
- Original Format
- financial records
- Extent
- 18cm x 25cm
- Local Identifier
- 0032-b1-fa
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- Subject(s)
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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African American History and Culture
- Location of Original
- Robert Lee Foy Collection from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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