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The Property Value of Slaves in 1848

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The Property Value of Slaves in 1848 Kentucky
1849-Dated Property Tax List Including Slaves.
February 22, 1849-Dated, Partly-Printed Document from Pendleton, Kentucky measuring about 21-3/4" x 8-3/4", being "A List of persons, with their Taxable property, for the year 1848... county of Pendleton [Kentucky]...," listing 12 persons and their various taxable properties, signed N. D. Wheeler. Included in this otherwise innocuous list of taxable property is two slaves, one over the age of sixteen, the other younger. Proof that valuing slaves as property was a normal course of business were the category headings:
"SLAVES OVER SIXTEEN YEARS", "TOTAL SLAVES", and "VALUE OF SLAVES", right up their with Horses and Mares, Pleasure Carriages or Barouches, Gold Spectacles, Mules, and more. What is interesting to note is that the older slave was valued at $400 while the younger taxed at $450 value.
Folds, light toning, small ink smear, otherwise very good. However, in our estimation, the content of this document supersedes the condition.

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The Property Value of Slaves in 1848

Name: The Property Value of Slaves in 1848
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Price: 650 USD
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