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Lot 54

Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$200 - 300
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$284
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript outline for a will with the discussion of enslaved African Americans. Newman, GA, 1851.


2 pages, folio, 8 x 12 1/4 in. creasing, minor toning, short marginal tear with repair to verso. Docketed at foot. 

In a discussion of all his debts to be paid: "my Cherokee lands to be sold to the best advantage, one, two or three equal payments, the proceeds to be applied in the purchase of young Negro boys & Girls able, in general to work on my White Oak or Harrison Plantations, & in the purchase of such additional males as may be wanted to carry on the plantations to the best advantage." He continues: "That my White Oak & Harrison plantations and my Negroes, stock of all kinds be kept together, and the planting business conducted to the best advantage.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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