MSS16710Enslaved person named Ben hiring documentEnslaved person named Ben hiring document MSS 16710Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2022-09-20

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:
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The collection is open for research use.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Citation books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 14 May, 2019.

 Preferred Citation

MSS 16710, Enslaved person named Ben hiring document, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

 Content Description

Document for the hire of an enslaved person named Ben, for $90.00 until December 25, 1852 possibly in Charlestown, West Virginia. Signed by John L. & W. N. Craighill. Docketed on the verso. The document specifies clothing to be furnished during the term of employment and requires the Craighills to return Ben with "a good wool hat, a blanket, a pair of winter shoes, two pair of home-made yarn stockings, one shirt, and a coat, waistcoat, and pants of good fulled-linsey, and pay his taxes."

 Slavery--United States -- Virginia