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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—SOUTH CAROLINA.) ROSE, ARTHUR G.,
CHARLES BULOW, ET AL
An archive relative to the Arthur G. Rose and Charles
Bulow Plantations, of South Carolina.
Includes fourteen different slave-sale docu-
ments (one of them six pages), printed and manuscript; one diary, seven bank books, stock
certificate for the Florida Steam Packet Co., another for the Union Insurance Co. (1812);
correspondence regarding Rose family interests as well as Bulow family interests being
managed by Rose; Arthur G. Rose’s 1849 and 1856 passports
THE FORMER SIGNED BY
THEN SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES BUCHANAN
plus receipts for sales and purchases and
ephemera.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, 1812-1890’s
[15,000/25,000]
An important collection of papers dealing with the properties belonging to John Joachim Bulow
under the trusteeship of Arthur G. Rose, cashier and later president of the Bank of Charleston
as well as executor for the Bulow estate. The collection includes quite a lot of material relative
to the holdings of Arthur G. Rose himself, his son Arthur B., and other family members. The
two families were apparently connected through marriage. The papers include fourteen slave sale
documents, most in the form of official printed South Carolina slave sales forms, all accom-
plished by hand. The earliest of these is a very large and very unusual printed South Carolina
sale document dated April 9, 1822. An unusual series of six documents concern the sale of
“Servant Richard.” The buyer asks for a title search, which then is provided on the accompa-
nying pages. A folio manuscript sheet, dated May 1859 through August of 1860 shows the
accounting for the sale of Negroes from the Bulow plantation: specifically Hannah (the same?)
and her three children, plus several large “sales of Negroes,” totaling $57,827.61. A South
Carolina Supreme Court report from March 1860, concerning A.G. Rose’s trusteeship of the
