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Broadside - Shipping receipt for goods transported on a Mordecai & Co. steamship.The owner, Moses Cohen Mordecai (1804-88), has been described as “the most prominent Jewish Charlestonian of the 1850s and 1860s.” Mordecai was also a member of South Carolina’s senate, a co-owner of the newspaper the Southern Standard and parnas in Charleston’s Congregation Beth Elo-him. Prior to the Civil War he opposed Secession, a position he changed one war broke out.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 8