2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2021
General Orders No. 7, Beaufort SC, August 22, 1862, "In hope of correcting a wide spread and deplorable evil, the following regulations are announced ... 1st. Any negro claiming to have ... more than one wife, is required to confine himself to ... that one to whom is legally married. 3d. All negroes, male or female hereafter living in a state of concubinage ... will be liable to arrest and imprisonment ... This order will be read. to the negroes on every plantation ..."
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