Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
A complete and authentic issue of the New York Daily Tribune, July 31, 1858, 8pp., disbound some damage to last page, clipped ads, minor foxing. Still and extremely interesting article on page three, “A White Slave Reclaimed owing to Mrs. Stowe's ‘Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.’ In large part, “Benjamin Davis & Bros., of this city, received a few days since a letter from a person named Miles Owen, which contains the following statement: In 1834, one Gorman Goodloe sold to H.T.T. Miller, in Natchez, then Postmaster there, a yellow woman and her child. When Miller died, the slaves became the property of Owen, by purchase. In 1839, Owen sold the woman, whose name was Atwell; and in 1847, he sold the boy to G.D. Ragland, of Alabama, by whom he was taught the trade of brickmason. In 1852, the boy ran off from ... assumed the name of George Washington, passed himself off as a white man and married a white woman, by whom he had a child. A man named Shaw, also a mason, who had worked in Alabama, saw the boy in Pittsburg, but could not place him, until he read Ragland's advertisement in Mrs. Stowe's ‘Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ when he at once recognized him as Ragland's property. ...” The reference to George Washington is Chapter IV, page 21 of Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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