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

Title:

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

Date:

1816

Description:

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.

Collection Title:

Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Newspapers

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Ball family

Topical Subject:

Plantations--South Carolina, Newspapers, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.), Contracts, Horse racing, Crops, and Plantation overseers

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

11-515A-39 (1134.00)

Date Digital:

2023-08

Digitization Specifications:

400 dpi, 24-bit depth color, Bookeye 4 Basic. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain

Access Information:

For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.

Admin ID:

290305