Sold2023(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Group of 3 receipts for slaves owned by the Brown family of Culpeper County,(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Group of 3 receipts for slaves owned by the Brown family of Culpeper County, Virginia. Each about 5 x 8 inches; folds and minor wear, one short closed tear. [Culpeper County, VASee Sold Price
Sold2020Early Virginia Runaway Slave Poster Offering a HigherSlavery Early Virginia Runaway Slave Poster Offering a Higher Reward if Captured in Northern States or “secured in any jail.” Broadside, 9” x 9.75” (visible). Archivally matted to 15.75” x 1See Sold Price
Sold2021Green Family, Culpeper, VA Document Archive, 80 itemsDocument archive related to the family of Judge John Williams Green of Culpeper County, Virginia, 80 items total. Topics include the USS Ontario, the Texas Revolution, Slavery, and more. The family inSee Sold Price
Sold2023[Slavery & Abolition] “No slaves imported…” to New Jersey Handwritten in 1847, this one-page return was prepared by a Constable from Morris Township regarding the prior month’s cases. According to the Constable, whose name appears to be “N.B. Elliott”,See Sold Price
Sold2022[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Quaker Allen family genealogy in[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Quaker Allen family genealogy in Some Considerations in Keeping of Negroes. WOOLMAN, John (1720-1772). The Works of John Woolman. Part the Second. containing his Last Epistle anSee Sold Price
Sold2023[SLAVERY & ABOLITION].  List of Slaves and Free Negroes found under guard when Brig. Gen'l[SLAVERY & ABOLITION].  List of Slaves and Free Negroes found under guard when Brig. Gen'l Martin assumed command at Plymouth, NC.  [Plymouth, NC], [1864?]. Manuscript listing over 262 indivSee Sold Price
Sold20221861 Founding Father Patriots on SLAVERY George Washington Abolition Slaves1861 Founding Father Patriots on SLAVERY George Washington Abolition Slaves Teachings of patriots and statesmen is a Civil War era printing on the founding fathers view of slavery and what was to be dSee Sold Price
Sold2023[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Executor's Sale...Slaves, men, women, boys and girls of various ages, house[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 broSee Sold Price
Sold2023[Slavery & Abolition] “Decks of a Slave Ship” EngravingOriginal Decks of a Slave Ship Engraving Decks of a Slave Ship. Folio from W.O. Blake’s The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. ~6 x 9 1/2 Impactful schematic of the realitieSee Sold Price
Sold2023[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Public Sale of Slaves!! Franklin County, [KY]: N.p., 30 October 1863. With[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 7/8See Sold Price
Sold2023[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Administrator's Sale of Slaves. Clay County, MO: N.p., 9 March 1858.[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Administrator's Sale of Slaves. Clay County, MO: N.p., 9 March 1858. 9 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. letterpress broadside (toning, short marginal tears); framed to 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (not eSee Sold Price
Sold2023[Slavery & Abolition] 1853 Will re: Blind SlaveAutograph document signed by Daniel Rucker (1780-1833). Bourbon County, Kentucky, 27 September 1832. 3 pages. Undersigned by witnesses. To verso, autograph addendum by Clerk of Courts Thomas P. Smith.See Sold Price
Sold2023[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Partly printed bill of slave for enslaved man Will. [Fairfax County, VA], 5[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Partly printed bill of slave for enslaved man Will. [Fairfax County, VA], 5 January 1789.   1 page, 4to, 9 1/4 x 10 3/8 in., partly printed, toning, separations along old fSee Sold Price
Sold20201852 1st ed Uncle Tom’s Cabin Books Beecher Stowe Slave1852 1st ed Uncle Tom’s Cabin Books Beecher Stowe Slavery Abolition Civil War “A moral battle cry for freedom!” – Langston Hughes on Uncle Tom’s Cabin. No other work of literature helped laySee Sold Price
Sold2021Early 1816 Louisiana Slave Bill of SaleOriginal bill of sale is for slave named William, described as being about thirty years of age. Early example from Louisiana. Condition as shown. [Slavery, Abolition, Civil War, Union, Confederate]See Sold Price
Sold2023(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter reporting on the dispersal of a family's enslaved people in Tennessee.(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter reporting on the dispersal of a family's enslaved people in Tennessee. Autograph Letter Signed as "James" [Maury?] to unidentified brother in Brownsville, TX. 2 pages, 12See Sold Price
Sold2022[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of 6 works related to[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. A group of 6 works related to American slavery, comprising: BLAKE, William O. (1800-1880). The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern...The African Slave TraSee Sold Price
Sold2023[Slavery & Abolition, 18th c.]Nickolls, Robert Boucher. LETTER TO THE TREASURER OF THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED FOR THE PURPOSE OF EFFECTING THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. London: James Phillips, 1788. 6" x 3.75". 58 pp., without finSee Sold Price
Sold2020Slavery Archive of 10 ItemsSlavery Archive if 10 Items This small archive includes materials related to slaves, including the sale and renting of slaves and their valuation in estates at the death of their owners. Together, theSee Sold Price
Sold2022SLAVERY ABOLITION DECREE - CUBA: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874)SLAVERY ABOLITION DECREE - CUBA: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a Cuban hero who freed slaves anSee Sold Price
Sold2018Pair of The Original Cassius Clay Signed Items.Cassius Clay, born 1810 in Kentucky. He was a "Kentucky planter, politician, and emancipationist who worked for the abolition of slavery. He freed the slaves that were handed down as his inheritance fSee Sold Price
Sold20221849 Rare Printed Richmond, VA Slave Bill of SaleBlack History 1849 Richmond, Virginia Slave Owner "E. H. Simmons" Printed Receipt for "One Negro Slave named John" Sale June 26, 1849-Dated, Rare Partially-Printed Slavery $375 Bill of Sale for "One NSee Sold Price
Sold2021[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [CIVIL WAR]. Exall - English[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [CIVIL WAR]. Exall - English family archive, featuring correspondence and photographs, incl. pre-war CDV possibly showing William Exall, 21st Virginia Infantry.Approximately 100See Sold Price
Sold2023New York Herald Reports on Lincoln's Abolition of Slavery & 13th AmendmentNew York Herald Reports on Lincoln's Abolition of Slavery & 13th Amendment 8pp, measuring 15.5" x 22", New York, dated February 3, 1865. An issue of the "New-York Herald", Whole No. 10,385. With wSee Sold Price
Jun 23Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books1852 Uncle Toms Cabin RARE & EARLY UK ed Beecher Stowe Slavery Abolition$72(5 bids)
Jun 23Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books1872 Uncle Toms Cabin Beecher Stowe Slavery Slave Abolition Civil War Osgood$20(3 bids)
4 days LeftEarly American History Auctions1822 Nathan Mayer Rothschild Signed Russian 5 Percent Annuity Bond, London Paid$450
4 days LeftEarly American History Auctions1808-Published Book on Black History, Slavery, and Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by Clarkson$400
4 days LeftEarly American History Auctions1837 Presbyterian Church Cert. by Ashbel Green to Rev. William Sprague Emancipated his Slave Betsey$500
Jun 12Leland LittleWilliam Posey Silva (American, 1859-1948), Southern Cabin and Cotton Field$350(2 bids)
BonhamsART â013 ARTHUR HUGHES & THE PRE-RAPHAELITES Archive relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist,...£800
21 hrs LeftLion Heart AutographsArchive of 15 Richard Avedon Letters to Senator Moynihan and His Wife$400(1 bid)
Jun 23Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books1848 THE SLAVE Memoirs Archy Moore Southern Plantation Life pre CIVIL WAR$1(1 bid)
21 hrs LeftLion Heart AutographsDadaist Hans Richter Unpublished Archive with Original “Dada Head” Drawing$1,500
BonhamsNAVAL HISTORY - JAMES RALFE A small archive of manuscript material relating to James Ralfe's The...£10
21 hrs LeftLion Heart AutographsArchive of Bernstein’s Youthful Jottings from His High School Days$250(1 bid)
2 days LeftFreeman's | HindmanWOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The Years. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.$300
4 days LeftEarly American History Auctions1828 GEORGE BIBB Treasury Secretary Autograph Document Signed Re: the Theft of a Slave and Her Child$400
4 days LeftPotter & Potter AuctionsBEN ALI-BEY (Max Auzinger, 1839 – 1928). Important Archive ...$1,500
21 hrs LeftLion Heart AutographsMaria von Trapp: “Somebody... deserves vinigar [sic] in his maple syrup”$125
21 hrs LeftLion Heart AutographsLetters from Verdi’s Wife to Ricordi Mentioning “La Forza del Destino”$600