[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved African Americans "Lonon, "Grase," and "Henderson," auctioned at the courthouse in the city of Raleigh. Wake County, NC, 15 April 1838.
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved African Americans "Lonon, "Grase," and "Henderson," auctioned at the courthouse in the city of Raleigh. Wake County, NC, 15 April 1838.
1p, 7 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (creasing at folds, scattered dampstaining). Docketed on verso.
Anderson Page, a constable of Wake County, "after giving due notice according to Law Dide Let up and Sell before the Court house Dore in the City of Raleigh being sale day to the highest bidder for Redy money the fowling negros to wit a man name Lonon a wooman name Grase and a boy named henderson fo the sum of Eight Dollars...." Enslaver "A.S. Drake" is indicated as the "highest and last bider...."
Auctions of enslaved people were commonly held on courthouse steps, an occurrence that could often result in devastation for enslaved families who were torn apart.
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