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Lot 195
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Negroes For Sale. I will sell by Public Auction...Eight Valuable Family Servants. Warrenton, NC: 28 October 1859.
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$1,000 - 2,000
Price Realized
$4,445
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Negroes For Sale. I will sell by Public Auction...Eight Valuable Family Servants. Warrenton, NC: 28 October 1859.
10 7/8 x 8 in. letterpress broadside (linen-backed and varnished; some loss to edges/creases, dampstaining). Signed in type by Jacob August and auctioneer P.J. Turnbull.

A broadside advertising the 29 November auction of "Eight Valuable Family Servants, consisting of one Negro Man, a first-rate field hand, one No. 1 Boy, 17 years of age, a trusty house servant, one excellent Cook, one House-Maid, and one Seamstress. The balance are under 12 years of age."

Other examples of this broadside are curated by the Robert W. Woodruff Library as part of the Henry P. Slaughter Collection; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; and the Badagry Heritage Museum in Nigeria.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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