FEATURED ITEM – SEPTEMBER 2020
ORIGINAL 1833 SLAVE AUCTION BROADSIDE
[SLAVE AUCTION BROADSIDE, 1833] An original copy of an 1833 broadside of a slave sale in Charleston, 12” high a 8”across, content includes “PUBLIC SALE OF NEGROES, By Richard Clagett. On Tuesday. March 5th, 1833, at 1:00 P.M. the following Slaves will be sold at Potters Mart, in Charleston, S. C. Miscellaneous Lots of Negroes, mostly house servants, some for field work…A valuable Negro woman, accustomed to all kinds of house work…She has four children…2 of the children will be sold with the mother, the others separately, if it best suits the purchaser…A very valuable Blacksmith, wife and daughters, the Smith in the prime of his life…Also for sale 2 likely young negro wenches…A likely yellow girl about 17 or 18 years old…She is sold for no fault. Sound as a dollar…House servants…they are sold for no fault whatever…because they can be done without and money is needed. He [the owner] has been offered $1250….They consist of a man 30 to 35 years old, who has been raised in a genteel Virginia family as house servant…Also 14 Negro Wenches…” /// CONDITION: well-preserved, overall age-toning and light creasing, edgewear, rubbing to a few letters of text, sheet supple but somewhat fragile /// reference: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3512398 (Beinecke Digital Collections, Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT) $2500.00 postpaid US address
