[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Letter re: Unauthorized Sale of Slaves

[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 bro

[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

[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 e

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter tracking the sale of an enslaved man just as the Civil War broke out. Autograph Letter Signed "E.G. Vaughan" to W. Watkins, with the response of Watkins on verso. 2 pages

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Letter detailing the sale of enslaved persons "Harry, Festus and Edward." 23 January 1860. 2pp, 7 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (scattered ink bleed, creasing at folds).   Writing to hi

Autograph 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.

Original 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]

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 fin

(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, 12

1846 1ed Slavery Abolition Slave Power Correspondence Palfrey Appleton Texas The book ‘Correspondence’ was intended as a supplement to John Palfrey’s pamphlet on slave power. Nathan Appleton rec

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Commissioner's Sale! . . . Eight Likely Negroes. Letterpress broadside, 9 x 11¼ inches, signed in type by Silvester Johnson as commissioner; folds, minimal wear, tipped to

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”,

[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 indiv

1861 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 d

If the Yankees come to see you and they want [our slave] Sam, tell them to take him and hang him if they want to. I want them to leave me the balance. The Yankees may strip you and look for money&hell

1864 Civil War 1st/1st In War Time Whittier Quaker Slavery Slave Abolition “…on the whole, the most American of all our poets, and there is a fire of warlike patriotism in him that burns a

1851 1ed Fugitive Slave Law Speech Horace Mann Slavery Congress Boston Slaves Slavery: Letters & Speeches is a compilation of writings by Horace Mann from his time in congress. Mann being an attorney,

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. MATTHEWS, Nathaniel. Autograph letter signed ("Nathaniel Matthews"), to R.W. Vasser, with details of 10 enslaved individuals. Richmond, VA, 9 December 1849.   2 pages, 4to,

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for an enslaved man named "Ando." Plymouth, MA, 29 September 1738. 1p, 7 3/4 x 6 in. (few holes, verso with ink bleed and adhesive residue). Signed and s

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for the enslaved woman "Nancy." Tensaw, Baldwin County, AL, 1 April 1862.   1p, 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (toning, creasing at folds, scattered blue ink and

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved African Americans "Edward" and "Jane." Wake County, NC, 14 September 1857.   1p, 8 x 10 in. (toning, creasing at folds, chipping at edg

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved woman "China" and enslaved child "Crawford." Wake County, NC, ca 1820s. 1p, approx. 8 x 10 in. (multiple pieces, possibly portions of separa

Original 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 realitie

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. 12 Likely Negroes for Sale.  Barren County, KY: N.p., 27 April 1863.   10 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. letterpress broadside (minor offsetting, a few ink spots); framed to 15 1/8