Museum object · Slavery and Freedom Objects
Accounting record for the Rouzee family with notes on hires of enslaved persons
1810-1811
Essex County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This document is an accounting record for the years 1810 and 1811 with some of the entries pertaining to the hiring out of enslaved persons and the amount due the enslavers for the labor or services performed. The document is a single page folded vertically multiple times and handwritten in black ink.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2011.104.25
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