[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Public Sale of Slaves!! Franklin County, [KY]: N.p., 30 October 1863. With pencil inscription recording the 8 enslaved sold with names and prices.  
Visible 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. printed broadside (brown spotting, creasing, short marginal tears with repairs to verso, old adhesive residue to verso); framed to 15 3/4 x 13 1/8 in. (broadside affixed to mat at top edge).   Signed in type by master commissioner George W. Gwin.  A broadside advertising the public sale of 8 unnamed individuals: "three Negro men; One Negro woman and a small child, adopted; one Negro woman and two children." From the estate of James Harlan, who is listed as enslaving 12 individuals in the 1860 Federal Slave Schedule. Although the enslaved go unnamed on the printed broadside, a contemporary hand has recorded the names of the individuals with the prices each sold for in pencil below the large title on the recto: "Mother for $280.00 / Lewis for $235.00 / Sarah + Virginia for $258.00 / Ben for $200.00 / Selva + Maria for $287 / Robert for $230. / All - $1490.00" Similar information is recorded on the verso.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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