- Title Information
- Title
- Cedula for freed slave
- Type of Resource
- text
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- spa
- Origin Information
- Date Created
- 1859 June 1
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1859-06-01
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Freedmen
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Identification cards
- Genre (aat)
- legal documents
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Legal instruments
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Slavery
- Geographic
- Cuba
- Temporal
- 19th century
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Enslaved persons
- Topic
- Emancipation
- Geographic
- Cuba
- Subject (LCSH)
- Topic
- Sugar workers
- Geographic
- Cuba
- Temporal
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 7.5 x 8.5 in.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
(displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
- Partly printed, filled in manuscript document issued in Isla de Pinos, Cuba in 1859. This free/emancipated slave ID document was issued at the "Comandancia Militar y Political de la Isla de Pinos". Left and right margins contain 11 articles which quote laws and regulations pertaining to "cedulas". The mid section contains personal information of the free slave. Translated summary of this document reads as follows; Isla de Pinos District - 1859. Nueva Gerona, June 1st. Certificate of freedom issued on behalf of Juan Audivert, of San Juan y Martinez, of 30 years of age, who lives in Tejar. Signed: Jaime Ochoa [TN:surname is a qualified guess]. There is a seal of the Military Commander Post at Isla de Pinos. A fee of 4 reales was paid for the certificate.
- Related Item:
Host
- Title Information
- Title
- Cuban Slavery Documents collection
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1820
- Date Created:
End
- 1892
- Identifier:
Local
- Ms.2014.018
- Location
- URL
- http://www.riamco.org/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2014.018&view=title
- Note
(displayLabel="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/)
- Identifier
(displayLabel="BDR_PID")
- bdr:421187
- Identifier
(displayLabel="MODS_ID")
- bdr421187
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.