Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds
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Thom Berryhill[2] Virginia All offices in the rebel Army, November 1863.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture"}], "name": [{"label": "Written by", "content": "Unidentified"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "Unidentified Child or Children"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "Robert Jardine"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "John Ferguson, American, 1784 - 1854"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "Richard Burk, American"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "Susanah Burk, American"}, {"label": "Subject of", "content": "Edmund Burk, American"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "African American"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Domestic slave trade"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Fancy Girl trade"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Finance"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Slavery"}], "place": [{"label": "Place made", "content": "Virginia, United States, North and Central America"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "ink on paper"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "H x W (complete): 12 5/16 \u00c3\u0097 7 3/4 in. 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