| Item: | Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase |
| LJTP No.: | 200.045 |
| Medium: | Paper |
| Creator: | Shelton & Co. |
| Date: | January 3, 1871 |
| Place: | Cuba |
| Period: | Post-Civil War America 1866 – 1900 |
| Keywords: | Cuba, Slavery, Freedom |
| Citation: | Document. Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase. 1871. Library of John T. Pregler, Dubuque. (Source: Library of John T. Pregler) |
LJTP 200.045 – Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase – 1871 
LJTP 200.045.001 – Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase – 1871
TRANSLATION:
Most Excellent Lord Governor political
Shelton & Company of this trade seizes two of the succession of D. Bartolomi Morel to Your Excellency with due consideration.
It says: That for conducts of the gentleman Receiver General they have separated from the brunette Feliciana, Creole as of twenty-seven years of the endowment of the Emelie woman. In the party of the Yaguas, the sum of three hundred and fifty pesos for their freedom.
Diguese Your Excellency consider the necessary permission to grant the deed. Cuba January 3, 1871.
Most Excellent Sir
Shelton & Co.
(Illegible Signature)