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Portrait of Receipt for sale of Jane, formerly enslaved, Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1 and all future children, December 20, 1849
Interviewed in
Alabama
Age when photographed
18
Biography · formerly enslaved

Receipt for sale of Jane

A biography drawn from Receipt's own account is being prepared. Their own words are below.

From the Federal Writers' Project slave narratives, 1936–1938. The interviewers wrote down their words in the 1930s, often in dialect spellings that reflect the interviewer more than the speaker.

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