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Listing total debts of $790, 000 including purchase of Virginia stock and (Confederate) bonds, “money for Soldiers Tax” (first levied in 1864), $23,6000 for “Negroes purchased” and $30,000 to R.Davis “to buy Negroes”. We’ve been unable to confirm the intriguing possibility that this might be part of a statement of personal finances of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Who else could have nearly a million dollars in debt a year before the end of the Civil War - and why would Davis, or any other wealthy southerner, still be buying slaves a year after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?