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Account of wages owed by Rebecca Smith to freedmen whom she had contracted to work on her plantation for a year.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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All the freedman are listed, with the amount of the wages due them. In the original contract Smith agreed to provide the laborers $60 ("for Negro men of first class"), two suits of clothes, and one acre planted in cotton; the freedmen agreed to pay for lost time and personal doctor bills.
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600 Ppi Tiff
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1866 1866 00 00
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Freedmen
  4. Plantation Life
  5. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  6. Smith, Rebecca

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