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Slave Sale Broadside

SLAVE SALE BROADSIDE. Public Sale. On the 17th day of July 1832, Will be sold at the late residence of Jacob Sodowsky, Sen. dec'd. the following property, viz: Negroes, Men Women and Children, from 15 to 20 in number, with Horses, Hogs, Sheep and Cattle [etc.]

[Lexington, KY]: 1832 . Broadside (230 x 282 mm). Signed in print by executor Ephraim Sodowsky. A contemporary manuscript correction changing Fayette County to Jessamine. Condition: a bit browned, folds and creases, a few minor tears and separations. Provenance: contemporay owner's name in the lower margin. unrecorded and very early kentucky slave sale broadside. Jacob Sodowsky (1754-1832) was among the earliest settlers of Kentucky, participating in the Harrod Expedition in 1774 and escaping the region after Indian attacks by descending the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans (a remarkable feat mentioned in Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West). At the time of this slave sale, the year following Nat Turner's rebellion and a year prior toKentucky's prohibition of the importation of slaves for sale, most Kentucky slave owners held 5 or fewers slaves. A auciton of this number of slaves would have been an unusual event.