Julius Kauffman Slave Bill of Sale Digitized

Julius Kauffman slave bill of sale, MS2018-0052

The Special Collections Department recently digitized and released the Julius Kauffman slave bill of sale. The receipt documents the sale of a thirty-year-old woman named Louise, an eight-year-old child, and a six-month-old infant. The sale occurred in Galveston on May 13, 1865, one month after Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House and a few weeks before Juneteenth. This bill of sale documents the presence of slavery in Galveston even after the Civil War ended.