Pay Roll of Slaves Employed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, for Coast, Harbor and River Defenses, on the Defensive Works at Gloucester Point in the Month of April 1861
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Title
Pay Roll of Slaves Employed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, for Coast, Harbor and River Defenses, on the Defensive Works at Gloucester Point in the Month of April 1861
Subject
African Americans, military service
Description
This is the second page of an itemized list of the expenses that the state's engineer department incurred in renting slaves and horses to work on defensive works at Gloucester Point, on the north bank of the York River, in the month of April 1861. This page also records the renting of several horses from the owners of the enslaved laborers and indicates that the rate for hire of laborers and of horses was the same, $0.50 per day.
Creator
Engineer Dept., Commonwealth of Virginia
Source
Slave Rolls, May
Date
April 1861
Contributor
Library of Virginia
Rights
CC BY-SA
Relation
Confederate pay roll for defensive works at Gloucester Point.
Format
JPG
Type
printed form and manuscript
Identifier
10_1269_010 Conf pay roll
Coverage
Gloucester County, Virginia
Citation
Engineer Dept., Commonwealth of Virginia, “Pay Roll of Slaves Employed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, for Coast, Harbor and River Defenses, on the Defensive Works at Gloucester Point in the Month of April 1861,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed October 31, 2025, https://virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/500.