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Lot 204
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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$400 -
600
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$4,800
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Lot Description
[ENSLAVEMENT]. Notice of capture for a "runaway slave" named Milton. Rushville, [IL], 24 July 1835.
Manuscript notice for a "runaway slave" named Milton, who is in custody of the Schuyler County Sheriff. Rushville, [IL], 24 July 1835. One page, 7 3/4 x 6 in.
"Notice / Is hereby given that a black man named Milton has this day been committed to my custody as a runaway slave. The said Milton is about twenty years of age. Five feet six inches high and well proportioned. He says that his master lives in Marion County Missouri near Palmyra, his name William McDaniel. Rushville 24 July 1835. [Indecipherable] Shff. of Schuyler County [IL]."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents
This lot is located in Cincinnati.