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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NEW YORK.)
Early New York Manuscript
Slave Sale Document, wherein Moses Carpenter of Warrick in Orange County,
New York, sells Peter Townsend a “Negro Man named John, about forty-four
years of age, with his wearing apparel.”
Large folio sheet, folded to form four tall 4to
pages, written on one side and docketed on the last.
Warrick, Orange County, New York, 1798
[800/1,200]
It is worth noting that New York held nearly 16,000 slave as of the 1800 census, more than
any other eastern state north of Washington D.C.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NURSING.)
”To Negro Jude for nursing
the smallpocks (sic) at Mr. Knights for 25 days . . .
Small piece of paper, written on
both sides, witnessed and signed by Mr. Knight, and by Jude with an “X.”
Baltimore, 1798
[600/800]
A most unusual receipt for services rendered by “Negro Jude” for looking after the Knight family
during an outbreak of small-pox, paid by Mr. Buchanan a third party and possibly Judy’s owner.
Baltimore was among the very first cities to begin using Edward Jenner’s “vaccination” against the
dread disease in 1798, the year of this receipt. It impossible to know whether or not Negro nurse
Jude was looking after a family that had been inoculated or not. But the fact that she would
expose herself for four pounds thirteen shillings and nine pence speaks to her need. Maryland at
this time had some of the most relaxed laws regarding slaves. However, in1831, after Nat Turner
led a bloody rebellion of slaves, Maryland’s laws became the harshest in the country.
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