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(SLAVE PLANATION LEDGER)

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(SLAVE PLANATION LEDGER)
A rare hardbound 12mo. accounting ledger for the plantation of Thomas Vickrey Charleton Co., Georgia, covering the years 1836 to1848, with approximately 60 width-wise entries finely penned in period ink. They include the purchasing of slaves, bonding Black children, crop harvesting, property rental, taxes, and the purchase of clothing reading, in small part: "…Received June 20, 1838 from Thomas Vickory Seventy five Dollars in full of a Black Boy. I Transferred to him atest James Grier, William Case…Received May 30, 1839…Fifty Dollars in full for Boy Transferred to him…James H. Boone…Rec'd July 22nd 1845…Fifty Dollars in full for a Black girl sold him and transferred to him this day by me before Judge Harrington…Rec. of Thomas Vickery fifty Dol. for a Boy I transferred to him this day by the name of Thomas Law Sept. 23, 1851. W. Sepple...Sarah Brown, n [egro], was born January 15, 1853 Freedom $10. Free January 15, 1871…Margaret Elizabeth Flamer, n, is free January 1, 1862…Thomas I. Brinkley, n, Born May 7th 1840. Free May 7th 1861 freedom $10…". Approximately a dozen more slave-related entries are located throughout the book and give an interesting view of slavery dying a natural death on the Vickery Plantation with some of the scheduled freedoms to occur during or just after the Civil War. Some light soiling throughout with normal wear affecting this well-used book. Overall good to very good.