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Documents Related to American Slavery, Three Examples, 1765-1824.

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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3311TLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 11, 2019 12:00PM

Description:

Documents Related to American Slavery, Three Examples, 1765-1824. Including: a manuscript receipt from North Carolina, April 1824, wherein Thomas Vaughan purchases, for $325, "a negro man Bob of the age of thirty-five years," from Jonathan B. Farley, docketed on verso, in a double-glazed frame, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; a page of manuscript receipts between Edward Shippen and John Bates, October 1765, in which mending the shoes of people identified as "your Negro woman," and "your Negro man," are listed, signed by Bates, matted and framed, 10 x 8 in.; [and] printed broadside, An Act Declaring that Slavery cannot exist by the Constitution and Laws of this State, New York, 1820, framed, 10 x 7 1/4 in.

Provenance: Franklin Hall Williams (1917-1990),lawyer, civil rights leader, educator, and diplomat.
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

John Bates, Edward Shippen, Thomas Vaughan, Bob, Jonathan B. Farley