[Manuscript Receipt Documenting the Sale of a Young Slave in Florida During the Civil War]

Quincy, FL: January 1, 1864. [1]p. of manuscript, docketed on verso. Old crease, minor staining. Very good. A short but impactful and somewhat unusual document memorializing the inheritance of a young slave named "Anderson aged about twenty years" from a Florida estate in the penultimate year of the Civil War. Anderson was formerly owned by Daniel Love of Gadsden County, and is here inherited by "John Shaw for Margaret E. Shaw" by Love's executor (and likely brother) Edward Love. The document is dated New Year's Day, 1864. An unusual occurrence of a Florida slave being transmitted to a woman through inheritance.