2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Confederate Slave Sale broadside, 7 -1/2”x10-1/2”, August 16, 1862, Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, and reads in part: “....PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE NEGROES! ...we will offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the late residence of Isabella M. Doak....TWENTY-EIGHT NEGROES, among them some very industrious and valuable farm hands. A boy, Francis, about 20 years old; a boy, George, about 18 years old; Isaac, about 16 years old; Mary Jane and her child (a female); Mary and her child; Martha Jane about 24 years old and her child; Rachel, about 17 years old; Maria, about 42 years old; Clemantine and her son Charley; Amanda, about 22 years old; a girl named Carolina, about 10 years old; a girl named Milly, about 15 years old; Harriet, about 15 years old; Jennie, about 11 years old; Letitia, about 8 years old; Fannie, 8 years old; Wilford 5, Susan 7, Howard 8, Jennetta 8, Louisia 9, Estaline 10, Ananias and Annie, 4. TERMS CASH or a Note at ninety days....Sold without reserve...” Fine. Framed.
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