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"To divide the negroes...."

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 To divide the negroes....
Manuscript document dated midpoint between the Emancipation Proclamation and fall of the South. Alabama, Feb. 13, 1864, 6 x 7 1/4, on Confederate-grey paper. Receipt for "negro woman Zilpha, aged about 22...valued at $2500, and Josephine, aged about 13 years, valued at $1800, also $25 in Cash to equalize the share of John E. Lewis, a minor heir...which said negroes & money were allot(t)ed...to divide the negroes of said estate." Signed by guardian Sarah S. Malone and witness. Old soft folds, else very fine.