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Lot 1063
[CUBA-SLAVERY] Manumission document for a child slave
. Havana: 1857. 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 (31.5 x 22 cm); two leaves, stamped at head with date. Minor worming at top margin.
An extraordinary document, granting freedom to a child of less than one year of age ("not yet baptized"), declaring it "free from all captivity and servitude for life." This was prepared by by a notary public, with his stamp at the head. A literal translation of one portion reads "I hereby save and free of all suggestion of captivity ... [the slave] whose name is Narciso. I write that he [the slave] has not even been baptized, born the 29th [day] of last October, son of his other slave, the brown-skinned Pascuala, native [to the land] and I convey his [infant's] freedom for the sum of 103 escudos." This document was necessary, as children born into slavery were considered to be slaves, unless, as here, manumitted.
C Property from The Estate of Dr. Alex Eliseo Asencio
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