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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1667

Slavery: Documents Trio of items, including Letter Signed, Pasquotank County (NC) March 1, 1790, to John Smith from the county sheriff, advising, "There is a negro woman by the name of Darkes in Custody & said to be liberated...Attend at the next Court...& make claim (if any you have) or she will be sold..." With document signed, Galveston, "District of Texas," January 15, 1849, a manifest of slaves with one entry, for a woman named Silvia of New Orleans, with a custom collector´s statement that she is not imported (illegally) from out of the country. Finally a document, Charleston, SC, February 19, 1851, in which Joseph D and Emily A Jenkins sell "the mulatto male slave Abraham...as an unsound negro" to O Mills & Co for $450. Letter toned with edge wear and staining, otherwise all VG. [3]

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$1,050