Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
A complete and authentic issue of the New York Times, July 29, 1857, 8pp., disbound, VG. From an interior page, in part “Yesterday afternoon a rumor was afloat that a negro man named JIM, who had accompanied his master Mr. Charles Parlange from New Orleans to this city, had left his master for the purpose of testing the sweets of freedom. ... A story was then set afloat to the effect that a negro of a certain but particular description (such as Louisiana nigger-drivers only can give) had stolen two boxes ... There is little doubt that “Jim” has merely exercised his own judgment about remaining with his master any longer and took this opportunity to betake himself to freedom. It is assumed that he was to precede his master to Walnut Street Wharf with the baggage; but singular enough to say, no complaint has been made about the baggage being missed, simply the two tin boxes, and particularly the one containing money. This is doubtless a ruse to engage the services of the Philadelphia Police in the interesting game of nigger-hunting. ...” Charles Parlange occupied the famous Parlange Plantation, built about 1750 in southeastern Louisiana, is a classic example of a large French Colonial plantation house in the United States. It is owned and operated by descendants of the original owners.
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