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Slave pass

Slave pass

Accession number: 2000.67

Pewter slave passport inscribed "Aunt Jemima Johnston, Born 1799, Nicholas Plantation, Warrenton, Virginia." The other side crudely depicts "the big house" and the slave quarters.

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