A framed bill of sale for Flora, an enslaved woman, dated "this 13th Day of December, 1796." The document is handwritten in brown ink on cream laid paper. The document transfers the ownership of "a certain Negro Wench named Flora" from Margaret Dwight in Milford, Connecticut to Asa Benjamin in Stratford, Connecticut for the amount of twenty five pounds sterling. The document is signed "Margaret Dw
- Por Margaret DeWitt Dwight, American, 1765 - 1824, Flora, ca. 1777 - 1815, Asa Benjamin, American, 1763 - 1833, Abraham Van Horn DeWitt, American, 1772 - 1820
- Crédito: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and National Portrait Gallery, Museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative
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