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Cuban Certificate Releasing Prudencio from Indentured Service
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Certificate declaring a 19-year-old man named Prudencio free from indentured service. Cuba ended slavery in 1880, but replaced it with a period of indentured service. In 1886, the "patronato" system of indentured servitude was abolished.
Gift of Luis Gonzalez Del Valle, 2019.
Subject
- Enslaved persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Cuba
- Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
- Slave records -- Cuba
- Indentured servants -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba
- Indentured servants -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
- Finding Aid Date
- December 2023
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Open for research.
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The Cuban Certificate Releasing Prudencio from Indentured Service is the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The work is in the public domain. Please include a complete citation in your work.