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- GLC#
- GLC08397
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 30 May 1831
- Title
- Slavery contract
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Contract between James Reed and "Providence, a negro man aged about twenty-eight years," binding Providence to Reed for ninety years. Reed planned on emigrating to Texas, then a provice of Mexico, where slavery was not legal.
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