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Invoice for Purchase of Unknown Slaves, 1860

Historic invoice for  purchase of two enslaved women.
Transcription:

$2500                                                                                     Lynchburg, Virginia 
                                                                                                August 24, 1860
            At sight pay to the order of A. B. Rucker, Twenty five hundred dollars ($2500) in part of the appropriation of $7,000 dollars made by the Trustees of the Univ. of Ala. at their late meeting, for the purchase of slaves, and place to account of
            Yr. [N]. Geo. Benagh
To Henry A. Snow, Treas. of Univ. of Ala. Tuscaloosa, Alabama


 
Source: Invoice from George Benagh, Lynchburg, Virginia, to Henry A. Snow, University of Alabama, August 24, 1860, RG 1 University of Alabama Early Administrative Records, folder 90b, W.S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama.

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