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Lot 234
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$300 -
400
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$381
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Lot Description
[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. 2 documents from Lafayette County, MS, incl. an 1842 inventory listing one enslaved young female subject and an 1854 land deed referencing the Chickasaw Cession.
Manuscript inventory of the property received from Richard Barry. Lafayette County, MS, December 1842. 1p, 8 x 9 in. (folds, toning near folds, edge wear). Docketing to verso. Included in the inventory is "One Negro Girl 9 years old named Charlotte $350." Additional entries include a gray mare, cow and calf, sow and pigs, knives, and furniture. Signed by A.A. Houston and M.E. Houston.
[With:] Manuscript land indenture between B.F. Houston and A.A. Houston with a reference to the Chickasaw Cession. Lafayette County, MS, 1 March 1854. 1p, 7 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (folds, toning near folds, occasional spotting, light edge wear). Docketing to verso. Signed by B.F. Houston, who later served with the Confederate army. He enlisted as a private with the 34th Mississippi Volunteers, was advanced to colonel at the Battle of Perryville, KY, and eventually became a captain.
Together, 2 manuscript documents.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States