March 30, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
- New York, NY, US
- Auction Details
PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AFRICAN AMERICANA
300 lots
- Collectibles(223)
Inner Filter Options - Fine Art(77)
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1: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter to an American slave ship captain, ordering him to deliver "prime male slaves" to Havana.
2: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave-Trade from the United States,
3: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Correspondence regarding the delivery of the American slave ship Sarah Ann to justice.
4: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. [The Scourged Back.]
5: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Half-plate ambrotype portrait of an enslaved Virginia woman, possibly named Martha, with her owners.
6: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter of recommendation for an enslaved woman wishing to transfer to a new church.
7: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Duties of Masters to Servants: Three Premium Essays.
8: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Administrators Sale . . . at the Elliston Plantation . . . Consisting of the Following Slaves.
10: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Business card of "J.W. Odell, Negro Broker."
11: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Receipt for the sale of an enslaved woman named Jenny to George Washington's nephew.
12: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for a boat, and "the Negro man Curry who commands her."
13: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter describing the slave markets of Montgomery, Alabama.
14: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for an enslaved man, sold by the recently elected first Mayor of Hartford.
15: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Archive of 14 deeds and receipts for the sale of enslaved people to a Maryland family, plus a manumission.
16: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Correspondence archive of the Richmond slave dealers Dickinson, Hill & Co., and S.R. Fondren.
17: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair of deeds for 20 enslaved people sold from South Carolina to Florida.
18: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Estate inventory of a prominent Georgia planter naming 58 enslaved people.
19: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Commissioner's Sale! . . . Eight Likely Negroes.
20: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Group of 3 receipts for slaves owned by the Brown family of Culpeper County, Virginia.