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Slaves Buy CSA Bonds

Worthy of notice.

The Montgomery Daily Advertiser says that a slave belonging to Mrs. Josbert, of Marengo county, took $400 in the bonds of the Confederate States, and paid for it out of his own money; and another slave, belonging to Mr. Hatch, of the same county, took $500 worth of the same stock, and paid for it out of money which he had laid up from time to time.

The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 04 May 1861