Tax Receipt for Taxes of 1864 issued to a named individual living in East Baton Rouge for payment of about $25 in [property] tax on four town lots and a 4 acre plot

[United States. Army. Board of Education for Freedmen]

Published by Duncan & Co., Stationer's and Booksellers, 124 Camp Street, [New Orleans], 1865

About this Item

Partly printed receipt dated November 7, 1865. Approximately 20 x 13 cm. Property owned by individual listed on back side. Taxing white property owners in Louisiana to support education of African Americans was probably the primary method of funding education for African Americans in Union-controlled Louisiana since African Americans were too poor for their taxes to support such schools. This receipt is signed by a Captain Sheridan on behalf of the Provost Marshall. After the end of the Civil War, the newly created Freedmen's Bureau would replace this Board of Education for Freedmen in the Army's Department of the Gulf. Efforts to seize and redistribute property from defeated Confederates to those formerly enslaved were thwarted by President Andrew Johnson. We doubt that the Freedmen's Bureau had authority to continue this property tax.

Seller Inventory # 95059

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tax Receipt for Taxes of 1864 issued to a named individual living in East Baton Rouge for payment of about $25 in [property] tax on four town lots and a 4 acre plot
• Publisher: Duncan & Co., Stationer's and Booksellers, 124 Camp Street, [New Orleans]
• Publication Date: 1865
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education
  • Civil War
  • African Americana