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Magan Family Legal Documents

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5247099


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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

Genres

Documents

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).

Languages

Spanish, Castilian

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

APA format

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

Chicago/Turabian Format

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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