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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Manuscript slave sale document for a
“Negro man named Cesar, about thirty Years of Age.”
Small piece of paper, 4
1
⁄
2
x 6
inches, affixed to a piece of stiff cardstock, with an autograph of H.L. Roosevelt as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy; on the reverse paper toned with remnants of red sealing wax and a
couple of large stains.
SOLD AS IS
Suffield, CT, 1751
[400/600]
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FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND.
Deposition of Arthur Hickman in
the case of the gift of a Negro girl named Peggy.
Small 4to leaf, written on one side
and docketed on the reverse.
Frederick County, 4 July, 1767
[600/900]
Deposition: “Arthur Hickman aged about 50 years deposeth and says that in the years seventeen
hundred and fifty nine he was on the eastern Shore at the house of the deponent’s father William
Hickman and heard his father William Hickman give a Negro girl named Peggy to daughter of
Henry Hickman, his son, named Comfort Hickman.
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BENEZET, ANTHONY.
A Caution
to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a
Short Representation of the Calamitous
State of the Enslaved Negroes in the
British Dominions.
40 pages, disbound.
Philadelphia Printed, London Reprinted,
1767
[600/900]
FIRST LONDON EDITION
,
FOLLOWING A
SIMULTANEOUS AMERICAN EDITION
.
Benezet, a prominent Quaker, was one of the
earliest critics of the slave trade and the
deplorable treatment of the slaves in Great
Britain’s colonies. Benezet cites accounts of the
capture and treatment of slaves, and the barbaric
Middle Passage journey from Africa to the
West Indies. Dumond, page 26; Sabin 4671;
Howes B345.
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