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Cedula for Chinese Colono Slave

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Year:: 1858
Genre:: legal documents
Subject:: Chinese > Cuba > 19th century; Freedmen; Identification cards; Legal instruments; Slavery > Cuba > 19th century; Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Cuba; Sugar workers > Cuba > 19th century
Extent:: 8.5 x 12 in.

Abstract:: Partly printed, filled in manuscript document issued in Havana in 1858. This Chinese Coolie ID document was issued at the "Gobierno Politico de la Habana". Left and right margins contain 9 articles which quote laws and regulations pertaining to "cedulas". The mid section contains personal information of the Chinese Colono. Translated summary of this document reads as follows; ID certificate issued on behalf of Valentin native of China, 13 years, single, farm laborer, who was at the employ of the Torices Company for eight years. Signed: Havana 23/6/1858 Jose Echavarria. No. 53.
Notes:: Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

"Cedula for Chinese Colono Slave" (1858). Cuban Slavery documents. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:421185/

Cuban Slavery documents

Documents including letters, certificates, and inventories relating to the institution of slavery, slaves, and indentured servants in Cuba dating from 1820-1892. Many of the documents refer to Chinese people brought to Cuba as indentured servants or contract laborers (colonos).
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