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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] 1867 Free Black Couple’s Marriage License
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] 1867 Free Black Couple’s Marriage License
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Partly printed Marriage License and Certificate completed in manuscript. Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, 3 October 1867. 8 x 10 in. Docketed to verso.

A rare early Reconstruction era marriage license for a Black couple, George W. Porter and Drusilla Slaughter, with docketing to the verso noting that they are “colored.” Their marriage is also recorded in the Kentucky County Marriage Records.

George is enumerated in the 1880 Federal Census, where he is listed as single and as a "servant" within the household of Atwood Hobson. Hobson was a prominent white resident of Bowling Green who raised thoroughbred horses.

Condition: small pinhole separations along old folds, some toning to verso along old folds.

[African Americana, African American History, Reconstruction, Manuscripts, Letters, Documents, Ephemera]
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] 1867 Free Black Couple’s Marriage License

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