Labor Agreement between P.C. Morgan and his Laborers

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Title

Labor Agreement between P.C. Morgan and his Laborers

Subject

African Americans, labor, race relations

Description

P. C. Morgan's contract identifies the people he hired as he would have identified them back in slavery times, as belonging to his neighbors ("Irby's Henry, Hudson's Albert, Thomas's Ned, Peggie and Eley"). It also indicates that the hired people insisted on at least one change in the contract, to delete the passage allowing Morgan to force them to work on Saturdays. Otherwise, the contract is very favorable to Morgan and includes restrictions on the activities and behavior of the laborers. It is not clear why the names that appear in the first line of the contract differ from the names placed with the workers' marks or why the witness or the Freedman's Bureau agent nevertheless approved.

Creator

P.C. Morgan

Source

Lunenburg County Freedmen's Contracts, 1865-1866, Lunenburg County Court Records, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

Date

January 1, 1866

Contributor

Library of Virginia

Rights

CC BY-SA

Format

JPG

Type

Manuscript

Identifier

15_0732_010, 15_0732_010a, P.C. Morgan agreement_1866_transcription_15_0732_010-101a.pdf

Coverage

Lunenburg County, Virginia

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