Lease agreement for the rental of Maria, an enslaved woman, 1853 December 27 :manuscript.
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- Title:
- Lease agreement for the rental of Maria, an enslaved woman, 1853 December 27 :manuscript.
- Date:
- December 27, 1853
- Contributor:
- Maria(Enslaved person), active 1853
- Description:
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Summary: Lease agreement for the rental of Maria, an enslaved woman. The unidentified renters "bind" themselves to pay "$35 on or before the 23rd Dec 1854" to "Lehew's & McKay" for the "hire of Negro woman Maria". The renters "bind [themselves] to keep said woman well clothed during the year and return her at expiration of the year supplied with a new and complete suit of winter clothing consisting of a new homemade linsey dress, underdress shirts of good scholasticate cotton, new shoes, & stockings, bonnet and one of the largest sized blankets."
Names of enslavers leasing Maria from Schew and McKay excised from document.
"Lehew's & McKay" possibly refers to the married couple, Anna Elizabeth McKay (nee Lehew) and Thomas Buck McKay, who enslaved 7 people. Consult the 1860 U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules.
Title devised by cataloger.
Formerly known as: Note for rental of slave woman for one year from [Schew's] McKay: Maria, including furnishing with winter clothing, shoes, stockings, bonnet, and blanket, $36, to [name excised], Front Royal area, Va.
Title on verso: Bond of hire for Maria, 1854.
Place of production based on known locations of members of the Lehew and McKay families.
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- Subject:
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- Women slaves--Virginia
- Slaves--Virginia
- Slavery--Virginia
- Slave trade--Virginia
- Slaveholders--Virginia
- African American women--Virginia
- African Americans--Virginia
- Leases--Specimens
- Enslaved Persons
- Enslaved people
- African American women
- African Americans
- Leases
- Slave trade
- Slaveholders
- Slavery
- Slaves
- Women Slaves
- Maria--(Enslaved person), --active 1853
- Virginia
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- Publisher:
- Front Royal, Virginia?, 1853 December 27.
- Language:
- English
- Digital Collection:
- American Slavery Documents
- Catalog Record:
- https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE009984152
- Source Collection:
- American slavery documents collection, 1757-1878 and undated
- Series:
- Slavery Series
- Rights:
- Free Re-UseNo Copyright - United States
- Identifier:
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- 150b17079dd19170f801100f2dd5ddd8
- 009984152
- americanslaverydocs
- duke:324250
- asdsi002012
- ark:/87924/r49z90t8j
- 73e005cf-5011-435d-9c9c-7a1026e67584
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