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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NEW JERSEY.)
Group of five early nine-
teenth century manuscript slave sale documents.
Four folio leaves and one 4to leaf.
CONDITION VARIES
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SHOULD BE SEEN
Bergen County, New Jersey, 1804-1818
[1,500/2,500]
A rare group of slave sale documents from New York and New Jersey; several of which are from
the township of New Barbadoes in Bergen County—better known today as Hackensack.
There is good deal of genealogical potential in these five documents. Many bear familiar New
Jersey names like Terhune, Westervelt, Van Houte, and Kip. Bergen County developed as the
largest slaveholding county in the state, in part because many slaves were used as laborers in its
ports and cities. After the Revolutionary War, many northern states passed laws to abolish slav-
ery, but New Jersey did not abolish it until 1804, and then in a process of gradual
emancipation similar to that of New York. However some in New Jersey still held slaves as late
as 1865. (New York ended slavery about 1827.)
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—LOUISIANA.)
Samuel Sprigg of Ohio
County in the State of Virginia, sells a “negress” slave named Dackey to Michel
Dorado Bringier of Saint James Parish for the sum of five hundred twenty dol-
lars.
Partially printed slave sale document accomplished by hand. Folio leaf; folded
vertically and horizontally, with partial tears at the folds; signed by the notary with his
blind-stamped seal.
New Orleans, 13 April, 1822
[400/600]
We were able to find a reference to a plantation owned by Dorado Bringier named “Maison
Blanche” among the William Kenner papers at Louisiana State University.
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