[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Mortgagee's Sale of Real and Personal Estate broadside advertising the sale of "personal property" including the enslaved woman "Eliza." Clay County, Missouri. 4 January 1861.
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Mortgagee's Sale of Real and Personal Estate broadside advertising the sale of "personal property" including the enslaved woman "Eliza." Clay County, Missouri. 4 January 1861.
Approx. 17 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. Provenance: Consignor relates broadside was purchased from Norm Flayderman, Catalog 111 Item 357.
"Whereas James Henderson, of the county of Clay, in the State of Missouri, by deed of Mortgage, dated the 24th of July A.D. 1860,...conveyed to the undersigned, the following described Real Estate, situate in Clay county, Missouri, and the hereinafter, described personal property, viz: -...One negro woman named ELIZA, aged about 45 years...."
Clay County, Missouri, whose early white settlers primarily came from the slave states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, had a higher percentage of enslaved people than the state of Missouri as a whole. While 13% of Missouri's overall population was enslaved in 1850, approximately 27% of Clay County's population was enslaved.
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