Winn, John, 1789-? Hardware plantation book 1836

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GLC#
GLC03434.32-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
1836-1840
Author/Creator
Winn, John, 1789-?
Title
Hardware plantation book 1836
Place Written
Hardware, Virginia
Pagination
45 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Account book for the Winn family's Hardware plantation. Lists debits and credits, sales and purchases of supplies, tools and produce. Lists sales of tobacco, prices of other crops, amount of tobacco produced by each enslaved person, and wages. The enslaved people are listed by their names Phebe, Dumb Tom, Deaf Tom, Old George, etc., and the weights of tobacco and/or dollar values of the tobacco transactions are listed by each name. One page has a short contract with William A. Clements for his services as an overseer; it is signed by Winn and Clements. Several pages, with headings such as "Memo of Negroes Tobacco Made"; "Balance due Negroes for Tobacco," "Sold Negroes Tobacco," and "Tobacco Made by My Negroes," "Weights of the Negroes Tobacco Made." It shows annual monetary transactions between Winn and the people he enslaved.

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