[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A group of 3 manuscript documents related to enslaved persons, comprising:
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. A group of 3 manuscript documents related to enslaved persons, comprising:
Manuscript receipt for "one negro boy named Lewis valued at six hundred & seventy five dollars...." N.p., 27 April 1834. 1p, 8 x 3 1/4 in. (creasing, toning).
Manuscript "sale bill of the estate of Matthew Hunter Decd" listing "a Negro woman Sill" valued at $150. South Carolina, 1835. 2pp, 8 x 6 in. (creasing, toning, small tear bottom edge line).
[With:] Manuscript legal document related to the partitioning of the estate of Mrs. Lirzah P. Brown in April 1864, and noting that William H. Green, a minor, was gifted $12,400 of "negro property." Lancaster Court House, County of Lancaster, South Carolina. 20 October 1870. 1p, 12.5 x in. (creasing, toning).
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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