Group of 5 war-date partly-printed Confederate impressment receipts issued to Alabama and South Carolina slave owners.
V.p.: 1863-1864]. Each 1 p., (approximately 200 x 150 mm). Condition: minor smudges to bottom of one receipt, else fine. Includes: 2 impressment receipts from Columbia, S.C., compensating the owner’s of “Henry” and “Tom” respectively, $1,000 each, “lost by reason of the employment of the said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortifications of this State”; an 1863 receipt from Charleston provides $1,800 compensation for “George” and his “service on the coast” ; a single receipt from the State of Alabama compensates the owner for the labor of one unnamed slave, to be paid out at a rate of $1 day for the 40 days of work; and finally a receipt issued by the Headquarters Army of the Confederate States, Dept. of Lt.-Gen. Polk, recording the impressment of slaves (there being listed alongside of club axes, spades and bacon) from a schedule of “Property Impressed”. a fine group documenting the use of slave labor for the “glorious cause.” As the war continued to drain finite resources in the South, slaves were taken from their owner’s and impressed into mostly menial labor behind the lines for the Confederacy, usuallly to build fortifications, breartworks, etc. A nice selection of these ephemeral pieces.
Group of 5 war-date partly-printed Confederate impressment receipts issued to Alabama and South Carolina slave owners.
V.p.: 1863-1864]. Each 1 p., (approximately 200 x 150 mm). Condition: minor smudges to bottom of one receipt, else fine. Includes: 2 impressment receipts from Columbia, S.C., compensating the owner’s of “Henry” and “Tom” respectively, $1,000 each, “lost by reason of the employment of the said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortifications of this State”; an 1863 receipt from Charleston provides $1,800 compensation for “George” and his “service on the coast” ; a single receipt from the State of Alabama compensates the owner for the labor of one unnamed slave, to be paid out at a rate of $1 day for the 40 days of work; and finally a receipt issued by the Headquarters Army of the Confederate States, Dept. of Lt.-Gen. Polk, recording the impressment of slaves (there being listed alongside of club axes, spades and bacon) from a schedule of “Property Impressed”. a fine group documenting the use of slave labor for the “glorious cause.” As the war continued to drain finite resources in the South, slaves were taken from their owner’s and impressed into mostly menial labor behind the lines for the Confederacy, usuallly to build fortifications, breartworks, etc. A nice selection of these ephemeral pieces.
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