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(SLAVE OVERSEER EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE)

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(SLAVE OVERSEER EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE)
Good content manuscript D.S. 2pp. legal folio, Galveston, Texas, January 1857, a brief in which the attorney for a Plantation owner argues against the financial claims of the former overseer. The attorney describes the claim as excessive as it was based largely on the potential value of the overseer's work for the remainder of the calendar year which also included a certain share of the year's harvest. The award, according to the plantation owner's attorney, was based on the fact that the overseer would not be able to obtain work for the remainder of the year. Light soiling and a few tiny chips to margins, otherwise very good condition.