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Lot 230
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$400 -
600
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$254
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Lot Description
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Manuscript document recording land rental, hiring of enslaved persons, and sale of the personal property from the estate of Nancy Bassett. Madison County, KY, 5 March 1856.
3pp, 7 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. bifolium, folds, some toning to folds, occasional spotting. Docketing to terminal leaf.
Page 3 lists 25 enslaved persons by name, their cost, as well as the first and last names of those who rented them. The inventory also lists various household goods and plantation equipment.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States