2006-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2006
Partly-printed Document Signed, 1p. folio, September 10, 1858, Raleigh, North Carolina, being an insurance policy issued to Thomas Simons Jr., and taken on the "Life of Joe a Blacksmith of Charleston...State of South Carolina in the amount of One Thousand Dollars, for the term of Five years...Provided Always, and it is hereby declared...that in case the sd. Joe shall, without the consent of this Company, previously obtained and endorsed upon this Policy, pass beyond the limits of the State of South Carolina, or in case the Insured shall have already any other insurance on the slave hereby insured, and not notified to this Company, and mentioned in, or endorsed upon this Policy or shall hereafter effect any other insurance upon the said slave, without the consent of this Company, first obtained and endorsed upon this Policy; or in case the said slave shall die for want of proper medical or personal attendance, or by means of any invasion, insurrection, riot or civil commotion, or of any military or usurped power, or by the hands of Justice; or shall die in open resistance to any authority or officer, legally constituted and appointed, or in resistance to the authority of any person or persons lawfully having the control and management of said slave; or should said slave die whilst runaway from the service of the person or person having the control and management of him or her, then this Policy shall be void, null, and of no effect..." Some minor dampstains, else near Fine. Very Rare. Thomas Y. Simons, was a member of the Secession Committee and signed the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, before joining the 27th South Carolina Infantry as captain and serving in the Confederate army. The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company dissolved during the Civil War, but its assets were purchased by another firm that again would use that name in the mid 1890s. That firm is now the largest African-American owned insurance company in the United States.
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