Hire agreement
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_010
Institutional Collections
A preprinted form hire agreement, with alterations, for Stephan Biddle to hire Joseph Wickes' "man Abe" for sixty dollars, provisions to provide specific articles of clothing, and two days during harvest. Note on the back indicated that Abe was hired again for the year 1853 at the same terms.
MS0066-01-63-001 December 31 1851
agreements
Slave labor, Slavery--Economic aspects--United States
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