Folio, stitched. Document has been folded in half at some point
Original manuscript slave sale contract dated April 1, 1776 at Acambaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, recording the sale of an 11-year-old slave boy who is described as the son of a light-skinned slave woman named Luisa: "El referido Esclavito nombrado José, que a la pressente sera de onze años de edad, el que nacio, y se crio en la missma cassa de los otorgantes de una Esclava nombrada Luisa, de color claro ..."
Title from p. [8], which would have been visible from the outside when folded