Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
Printed by Southern Confederacy Job Office Print, Nov. 1, 1862. Broadside, 15-1/2’ x 10-3/4”. Old folds and wrinkles. Sheet tanned and a bit foxed, some wear at edges. Good. An unrecorded Confederate slave sale broadside, giving details of an 1862 auction of slaves and land in Georgia. The date of the sale was Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1862 and was held in Calhoun, Georgia, about seventy miles north of Atlanta. It is noteworthy that this sale was scheduled to take place just two months after Abraham Lincoln's order declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate states. The text states that the land belongs to the estate of Brian Greer, and describes it thusly: "The tract of land contains six hundred and forty acres, more or less, and is situated upon the waters of Oostanaula River...the land is remarkably level, well watered, and is adapted to grain, cotton or stock." It is noted that the Dalton and Jackson Rail Road line will soon pass nearby, and the agricultural qualities of the land are also touted. Specific details about the slaves being offered are not given, though the land is described as having "negro cabins for twenty or thirty hands." Though no place of publication is listed, there was a "Southern Confederacy Job Office Print" in Atlanta. Not in Parrish & Willingham, nor in Hummel or on OCLC. Rare, and good evidence of the Confederacy's continuing commerce in humans, even in the midst of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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