Description: To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Leflore County Miss. I will give you $5.00 for able bodied men for month $2.00 women able bodied $2.00 boys under 16 years of age for the year 1893 I will make all bonds required. Greenwood (Leflore County) was an important confluence of the Tallahatchie & Yazoo Rivers exporting cotton to New Orleans, St. Louis & Memphis. The overwhelming majority of the population at the time of this letter was African American sharecroppers. The letter is addresses county council in & offers to make all bonds. That's an admission of guardianship from either prisons, poor houses or orphanages for children aging out (here counted as above 16). Strong illustration of the early Jim Crow era machinations that would lead to the prison / convict road building boom using the social welfare system as labor pipeline by the government. Furnishing Store letterhead (5.75 x 9") w/ original folds. Clean & complete w/ attractive strong manuscript.
Price: 600 USD
Location: Irwin, Pennsylvania
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Language: English
Special Attributes: Manuscript
Region: North America
Topic: Social History
Subject: Social History
Original/Facsimile: Original
