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Lot 191
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$300 -
500
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$300
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[ENSLAVEMENT]. 2 bonds placing liens on enslaved persons as property. Mecklenburg Co., [NC], 1820s.
2 partly-printed bond documents for Charles Carter involving enslaved persons:
7 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. bond for Charles Carter and John Bullock, placing a lien on "one negro man named Jack." Mecklenburg County, [NC], 21 March 1823.
8 x 12 3/4 in. bond for Charles Carter and Charles T. Carter, placing a lien on "one Negroe boy by the name of Peter." Mecklenburg County, [NC], 23 April 1822.
[WITH:] 8 x 12 1/2 in. bond document for John Blanks, Jim Edward Fillotson and James Taney[?], placing a lien on "one sorrel horse." Mecklenburg County, [NC], 27 June 1822.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents
This lot is located in Cincinnati.