Receipt for the Hire of a Slave at the State Salt Works

Receipt for the Hire of a Slave at the State Salt Works

Receipt acknowledging payment of $70 in Confederate notes and fifteen sacks of salt (3,000 lbs) "for the hire of a negro man eight months in 1864" from S. C. Callicoate. Another receipt (not included here) from September 23 records payment of 2,060 lbs of salt paid to same person for a "negro man" for work at the salt works in 1864.

A. H. Abney

Records of the Texas Military Board, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2-10/304

Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel.

September 19, 1865

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