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1. Newspaper Clipping on Articles of Agreement for a Plantation Overseer, 1816

Newspaper Clipping on Articles of Agreement for a Plantation Overseer, 1816
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1816
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A newspaper clipping on articles of agreement for a plantation overseer "from an old Virginia Paper." The agreement includes that the overseer is not "the master" of the employer, is not to spend more than one half of his time at "court-houses or elsewhere, or on pleasure, at horse-races, cock-fights, barbecues," and is given one-tenth of the plantation crops.

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