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Partly printed slave manifest

SLAVE MANIFEST. Partly-printed document detailing the transport of a slave named Sally aboard the ship Florida from New York to Savannah.

New York: 29 December 1855. 1 p., oblong broadsheet, light blue paper (215 x 352 mm). Accomplished by a clerk and signed by the shipper H. Brigham, the ship's master W. S. Woodhull and the collector of the port of New York. Condition: some white spotting, minor separations at folds. Besides giving her name, the document also includes Sally's age (35) and height. Above the signatures of Brigham and Woodhull is an attestation that the slave was not imported into the United States after January 1808. It is possible that the slave being transported from New York to Savannah was being returned as a Fugitive Slave. Such partly-printed manifests are scarce.