[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Executor's Sale...Slaves, men, women, boys and girls of various ages, house servants and farm hands. Oxford, [Talbot County, MD]: N.p., 9 April 1844.
11 3/8 x 14 in. printed broadside (creasing, some separations or marginal tears); framed to 15 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by the executors: John B. Kerr, Tench Tilghman, and John Stevens.  A broadside advertising the sale of the estate of John Leeds Kerr (1780-1844)The 1840 census records that he enslaved 25 individuals. The broadside here suggests a large number of individuals to be sold enumerating: "men, women, boys and girls of various ages, house servants and farm hands." The sale also would include extensive livestock, crops, timber, and plantation equipment.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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