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Account Book of an Enslaved Man in Colonial Rhode Island - Page 1
12019-03-21T12:05:31+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed9677214115Account book in which Cesar Lyndon, an enslaved man in Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1760s and ‘70s, kept accounting records of financial transactions with slave traders, merchants, and enslaved and free personsplain2020-01-08T20:59:09+00:00Lyndon, Cesar, Sundry Accounts with Samuel Burling, Newport, May 1765; Miscellaneous Memoranda 1765. Rhode Island Manuscripts Collection (MSS 9004) vol. 10. Rhode Island Historical Society1761-1771Cesar LyndonjpgEnglishCourtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society. [The title, date, medium, artist, as well as the negative or transparency number “RHi X” must accompany all captions – see License.]Rhode Island, slaverytext (manuscript)Rhode Island Historical SocietyAnonymous
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12019-03-21T12:06:53+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed96772141Account Book of an Enslaved Man in Colonial Rhode Island - Page 2 Recto3media/RHiX173727A_WMRsz.jpgplain2020-01-08T20:58:42+00:00Lyndon, Cesar, Sundry Accounts with Samuel Burling, Newport, May 1765; Miscellaneous Memoranda 1765. Rhode Island Manuscripts Collection (MSS 9004) vol. 10. Rhode Island Historical Society1761-1771Cesar LyndonjpgEnglishCourtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society. [The title, date, medium, artist, as well as the negative or transparency number “RHi X” must accompany all captions – see License.]Rhode Island, slaverytext (manuscript)Rhode Island Historical SocietyAnonymous
12019-03-21T12:08:46+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed96772141Account Book of an Enslaved Man in Colonial Rhode Island - Page 2 Verso3media/RHiX173727B_WMRsz.jpgplain2020-01-08T20:58:50+00:00Lyndon, Cesar, Sundry Accounts with Samuel Burling, Newport, May 1765; Miscellaneous Memoranda 1765. Rhode Island Manuscripts Collection (MSS 9004) vol. 10. Rhode Island Historical Society1761-1771Cesar LyndonjpgEnglishCourtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society. [The title, date, medium, artist, as well as the negative or transparency number “RHi X” must accompany all captions – see License.]Rhode Island, slaverytext (manuscript)Rhode Island Historical SocietyAnonymous
12019-03-21T13:04:45+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed96772141Account Book of an Enslaved Man in Colonial Rhode Island - Page 3 Recto2media/RHiX173728A_WMRsz.jpgplain2020-01-08T20:58:54+00:00Lyndon, Cesar, Sundry Accounts with Samuel Burling, Newport, May 1765; Miscellaneous Memoranda 1765. Rhode Island Manuscripts Collection (MSS 9004) vol. 10. Rhode Island Historical Society1761-1771Cesar LyndonjpgEnglishCourtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society. [The title, date, medium, artist, as well as the negative or transparency number “RHi X” must accompany all captions – see License.]Rhode Island, slaverytext (manuscript)Rhode Island Historical SocietyAnonymous
12019-03-21T13:05:16+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed96772141Account Book of an Enslaved Man in Colonial Rhode Island - Page 3 Verso2media/RHiX173728B_WMRsz.jpgplain2020-01-08T20:58:59+00:00Lyndon, Cesar, Sundry Accounts with Samuel Burling, Newport, May 1765; Miscellaneous Memoranda 1765. Rhode Island Manuscripts Collection (MSS 9004) vol. 10. Rhode Island Historical Society1761-1771Cesar LyndonjpgEnglishCourtesy the Rhode Island Historical Society. [The title, date, medium, artist, as well as the negative or transparency number “RHi X” must accompany all captions – see License.]Rhode Island, slaverytext (manuscript)Rhode Island Historical SocietyAnonymous
