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United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau form letter

This collection contains a form letter from the fraudulent United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau (a scam targeting former slave owners eager to be reimbursed for the loss of their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation) assuring former slave owners that by paying a fee, the bureau would register the number of slaves they lost at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation so that they could be compensated.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1890/1899

Subject
Slavery
Slaveholders--Georgia
Savannah (Ga.)--History
Slaves--Georgia
Enslaved persons--Georgia

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
form letters
correspondence

Type
Text

Description
This collection contains a form letter from the fraudulent United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau assuring former slave owners that by paying a fee, the bureau would register the number of slaves they lost at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation so that they could be compensated. The United States Ex-slave owners Registration Bureau was a scam targeting former slave owners eager to be reimbursed for the loss of their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_4289

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights