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Insurance policy for Robert Moody

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Title

Insurance policy for Robert Moody

Collection

Nautilus Insurance Company Slavery Era ledgers
Color photocopies of life insurance policies for Robert Moody and "Warwick"

Names

Nautilus Insurance Company (Creator)
New York Life Insurance Company (Donor)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1847

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 715

Subjects

African Americans -- Reparations
Insurance companies -- United States
Slave records
Slaveholders -- United States
Enslaved persons -- United States
Slavery -- Virginia

Genres

Documents

Notes

Acquisition: Gift of New York Life Insurance Company, May 2002.
Funding: Digitization made possible by the philanthropic support of the New York Life Foundation.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15560929
Archives ID: 24140
Archives EAD ID: 3366283
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8ec883f0-c617-012f-ec12-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Insurance policy for Robert Moody" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1847. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ec883f0-c617-012f-ec12-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1847). Insurance policy for Robert Moody Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ec883f0-c617-012f-ec12-58d385a7bc34

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Insurance policy for Robert Moody" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ec883f0-c617-012f-ec12-58d385a7bc34

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