Lot 15
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Public Sale of Valuable Slaves! Maysville, KY: N.p., 29 December [1854].
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Public Sale of Valuable Slaves! Maysville, KY: N.p., 29 December [1854].
Visible 11 7/8 x 14 1/4 in. letterpress broadside (creases, toned, short separations along old creases); matted and framed to 17 1/2 x 20 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Abner Hord.
A broadside advertising the auction of "Five likely & valuable Slaves, Viz: One Negro Woman and a Mulatto Woman and her Child." The printer appears to have misprinted the year of publication as 1855, when it was almost certainly printed on 29 December 1854, advertising the sale on Monday 8 January 1855, which corresponds with the calendar.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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