Promissory notes from freedmen to members of the McMillan family in Wilcox County, Alabama.
Each note records the amount of money borrowed and includes the date by which the borrower agrees to repay the McMillans. One note, dated January 5, 1870, promises to pay one bale of cotton "for every hand" that works in the fields "lying on Foster Creek." (The spellings of some...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/13836 |
