Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
A complete and authentic issue of Harper’s Weekly, November 23, 1861, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, a 2/3 page engraving, “Map of South Carolina Showing the Proportion of Slaves in Each County.” Within each county there is a number which represents the percantage of slaves and free blacks versus whites in that county. For example, “In lower All-Saints parrish, Georgetown district, the population is reported to be 222 Whites, no free Negroes, and 6468 Slaves.” Also a center spread by Winslow Homer, “The Songs of the War,” comprised of six vignettes including a slave sitting on a barrel in Dixie.
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