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Lot 284
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
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Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$244
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[ENSLAVEMENT]. Compensation claim for an enslaved man taken to work on fortifications by the CSA government. 1864.
Partly-printed "Original Receipt" for "Claim No. 63." Columbia, South Carolina. 14 July 1864. 1p, 8 1/2 x 6 in. Docketed verso.
Signed by attorney Samuel Stoney, acknowledging claimant P. Gilliard Stoney's receipt of $1,900 from the state of South Carolina "for compensation for his slave, named Toby, lost by reason of the employment of the said slave by the authorities of the Confederate Government upon the military fortifications in this State."