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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. $20 Reward. Runaway broadside. Nashville, Tennessee: Odom & Compton, 9 September 1833. 
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$2,500 - 3,500
Price Realized
$6,875
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. $20 Reward. Runaway broadside. Nashville, Tennessee: Odom & Compton, 9 September 1833. 

10 x 8 in. letterpress broadside on cardstock (vertical fold in center; darkening and surface staining). $20 Reward for "...a Negro boy, named BOB, about 19 years of age... about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high.... It is probably that he will attempt to make his way back to the neighbourhood of Petersburg Va., where I purchased him... We will give the above reward for the securing said Negro in Jail, so that we get him again." 

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