Magan Family Legal Documents
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Title
Magan Family Legal Documents
Collection
Miscellaneous Afro-Latin America Collection
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1726 - 1761
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 418
Shelf locator: Box 1, Folder 5
Subjects
Black people -- History -- Latin America
Black people -- Social conditions
Slavery -- History -- Latin America
Enslaved persons -- Latin America -- Social conditions
Argentina
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Notes
Content: Five documents dealing with the disposition of property belonging to the Magan family. The first contains the statement by Dr Antonio Jose Magan regarding the last will and testament of his mother, Inez de Cabrera y Magan, including a listing of her slave holdings (pp 12-13) and her wish to grant freedom to her slave Josefa (pp 4, 13).
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b18401028
Archives ID: 22005
Archives EAD ID: 3197840
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 68271c20-dbc0-0132-7fe8-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Magan Family Legal Documents" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1726 - 1761. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68271c20-dbc0-0132-7fe8-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1726 - 1761). Magan Family Legal Documents Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68271c20-dbc0-0132-7fe8-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Magan Family Legal Documents" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68271c20-dbc0-0132-7fe8-58d385a7bbd0
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