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A November 1867 receipt for a shirt Josephine Williams sold to her former enslavers, described in Clermont's account. The original is not reproduced here.
A specific piece of paper described in Clermont's own account: a November 1867 receipt for a shirt Josephine Williams sold to her former enslavers, two years after emancipation. The original is not reproduced in the corpus.
Clermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers1. Two years after emancipation, Josephine Williams was still in relationship — economic, transactional, on paper — with the people who had held her in enslavement at Clermont. That she was on the selling side of the transaction, and that a receipt was written and kept, is what makes this object worth its own record: a small durable artefact of the specific economic aftermath of emancipation on one estate.
One claim establishes the object's date, its transactional shape, and its survival in Clermont's own account. Missing from the corpus: the physical location of the receipt today, its exact wording, whether it names the seller and buyer in full, and whether other such receipts survive from the same estate. A relationship-first outreach to Clermont Foundation for direct access is the natural next step.
Clermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers.
A specific document has been identified by the institution.
The source description, not the original receipt, was read. No amount or full transcription is supplied.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, item 2: November 1867 receipt
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
Clermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers.
Clermont describes a November 1867 receipt for a shirt sold by Josephine to her former enslavers.
A specific document has been identified by the institution.
The source description, not the original receipt, was read. No amount or full transcription is supplied.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clermont Farm / Cory A. Van Horn
Locator: Four-document list, item 2: November 1867 receipt
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clermont-josephine. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-08. How this project checks its sources
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In 1870, twenty-four formerly enslaved African Americans purchased the land that became Josephine City. Their community went on to build a school through local contributions of labor and money.
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