[SLAVERY & ABOLITION - CUBA]. A group of 11 manumission and sale documents for enslaved persons in Cuba.

Single document, 2pp, 6 x 8 1/2 in., 2 February 1841. -- Folio pages from ledger, 8 x 12 1/2 in. Several with printed numbers.
They appear to be pages from ledgers recording all legal events in at least one district in Cuba. All in Spanish and dated 1873. According to the translator/consignor, these record 5 slaves for sale, both males and females, ages 49, 18, 14, 10, and 8 years; the sale of a 16-year old girl; manumission granted an 11-year-old boy; the sale of a 41-year-old African female; the sale of a 19-year-old female by an infantry commander; manumission of a 17-year-old girl by Shelton & Company; manumission of a 20-year-old male by Brooks & Company; manumission of a 24-year-old woman who was a native of France; and the manumission of "moreno colorado," a brown man of 19 years.

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