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Mecklenburg Gold & Copper Company Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Mining Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
Mecklenburg Gold & Copper Company Stock Certificate
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This item SOLD at 2018 Mar 17 @ 16:41UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Number 250 for 1000 shares to John W Hanson in 1869. Signed by Sam Thompson and (?). Two punch holes for a record keeping book. No edge issues, no corner issues, no discoloration, uncancelled. Very nice indeed!



In 1860 gold mines were not pretty places. They were noisy, smelly, grimy, and dangerous. The first step in establishing a shaft mine was to erect housing for the work force that included emigrants, poor farmers, women, children, and slaves whom local slave owners rented out to mining enterprises or whom the companies owned outright. "Taken collectively, southern companies owned directly eighty percent of the total slaves engaged in industry," writes Jeffry Paul Forret in his U.N.C.C. Masters Thesis. The remaining twenty percent were nothing more than rental property. Leasing bondsmen and bondswomen was a widespread practice in the ante-bellum South. According to one estimate, 6 percent of rural slaves and 31 percent of urban slaves were on lease from their masters in 1860. Mining companies preferred renting slaves to buying them outright because it cost them less money. A mining agent placed the following advertisement in a Charlotte newspaper in 1835. "I wish to hire from 15 to 25 NEGROES, to be employed in the Gold Mines near Charlotte. The highest price will be given for good hands; and those having some experience in the business will be preferred. Gentlemen having slaves whom they wish to hire advantageously, will please call on me.'" [Gold and Railroads by Dr. Dan L. Morrill] Date: 1860 Location: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina HWAC# 60244