Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

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[CIVIL WAR, SLAVERY] Confederate Impressment of Enslaved Labor

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Autograph letter signed by Joshua S. Hamilton. [Texas?], 19 June n.y. 1 page, 4to, on thin onionskin tissue paper.

What appears to be a Confederate document regarding the impressment of "negroes" into service: "Yours of the 8th Inst received. In reply I have to say that no ? how any authority to press more negroes or anything that + will be ? if they present in it."

[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

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Losses to ink eating through the extremely think paper.

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Day 1: Historic & Early Americana

[CIVIL WAR, SLAVERY] Confederate Impressment of Enslaved Labor

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