- AMISTAD TRIAL, NILES NATIONAL REGISTER,
MARCH 1841 Niles National Register, March 20, 1841. A very important issue, as an inside page has: "The Case of the Amistad" being the report of the Supreme Court on this...
[more like this] - MATAGORDA, TEXAS 1846 SLAVE DOCUMENTTexas
slave document written and dated October 3, 1846, at the Port of Matagorda, Texas regarding the shipment by Sam W. Fisher, Agent for I.R. Lewis, from Matagorda to New Orleans...
[more like this] - WINCHESTER REVOLUTIONARY WAR ACCOUNT
BOOK, 1779-1804Revolutionary War related account book and notebook belonging to early Tennessee settlers General James Winchester (b. 1752-d.1826) and his brother, Major George...
[more like this] - 1850 BOOK OF THE WORLD W/ MAPS & SLAVE
CENSUS PLUS PICT...1st item: FISHER, Richard S. The Book of the World; Being an Account of All Republics, Empires, Kingdoms, and Nations, in Reference to their Geography,...
[more like this] - THOS. JEFFERSON: NOTES ON THE STATE
OF VAJEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1794. 4 3/4" H X 8 1/4" W (Octavo). 336 Pages. Second Edition (THE FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION)...
[more like this] - JOHN DAVIS AND FAMILY ARCHIVEArchive
of items related to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor of Nashville, Tennessee, and his family. Includes Davis's will, numerous land documents, survey maps and some slave...
[more like this] - HARDING FAMILY ARCHIVE, ACCOUNT BOOKExtensive
archive relating to David Morris Harding (1795-1854) and wife Frances "Fanny" Grieves Davis Harding (1801-1865), including ledgers for David Morris Harding's whiskey business...
[more like this] - SLAVE ARCHIVE INCL. 68 BILLS OF SALEArchive
of approximately 75 ephemera items, the majority related to slaves purchased by David Morris Harding (1795-1854) and his wife, Fanny Davis Harding of Nashville, Tennessee....
[more like this] - VA BIRTH/SLAVE RECORD INC. JOHN OVERTONCirca
1760s birth and baptism record from the area around Louisa County and Spotsylvania County, Virginia, including reference to the birth of John Overton and baptisms of two of...
[more like this] - 2 SLAVE DOCUMENTS, NASHVILLE TN & NORTH
CAROLINA2 Slavery related items pertaining to Charles Ordway, Hardee Murfree, and Gen. Thomas Eaton of Tennessee and North Carolina. 1st item: Handwritten one-page inventory...
[more like this] - TN LUNSFORD BRAMLETT ARCHIVE, INCL.
POLK WHITE HOUSE IN...Archive of six (6) documents pertaining to Lunsford Meredith Bramlett, Esq. (1785-1858), Tennessee judge, planter and politician, 8 items total. 1st-2nd...
[more like this] - ATTRIB. EASTMAN JOHNSON, PORTRAIT OF
A GENTLEMANConte crayon and gouache drawing on paper attributed to Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906); bust length, three quarter view portrait of an unknown gentleman...
[more like this] - FORT FAMILY OF NC/TN ARCHIVE, 19 ITEMS
INCLUDING SLAVE ...Archive of documents and letters related to the Fort Family of Tennessee, primarily Elias Fort (1730-1819) of Edgecombe, NC who came west on a Revolutionary...
[more like this] - GROUP OF MIDDLE TN EPHEMERA INC. SLAVE
SALE, 1852 ALAMA...1st item: Slave receipt, recording $425 received from Daniel Montgomery for "Polly aged about 16 and George aged about 12 years," sold by John Fitzhugh,...
[more like this] - GROUP OF EAST TN DOCUMENTS, 1795-1857
INCL. KNOXVILLE, ...Thirty-nine (39) documents related to early life in East Tennessee, including mentions of slaves, a duel, signatures of Charles McClung, Hugh White, Alexander...
[more like this] - SNOWDEN FAMILY PHOTOS AND SLAVE DOCUMENT,
MEMPHIS TN AN...Archive of photographs and 1 slave document related to the Snowden family of Tennessee. 1st item: 1848 Bill of Sale recording the sale by J.B. (John Bayard)...
[more like this] - 1840'S SLAVE EPHEMERAFramed grouping
of four handwritten receipts for the sale of slaves, circa 1846. Comprising: 1) "Rec'd of Henry D. Smith the sum of three hundred dollars for the purchase of a negro man Davy.....John...
[more like this] - ERTE "SLAVE OF SALOME" SERIGRAPHErte
(1892-1990). Serigraph on paper titled "Slave of Salome." Signed along the lower right and numbered AP 64/70 along the lower right. Dimensions: Sight; height: 45 1/4 in x...
[more like this] - A REPUBLIC OF TEXAS BILL OF LADING FOR
SMUGGLER AND FOR... SMUGGLER AND FORGER MONROE EDWARDS, NEW ORLEANS TO GALVESTON, MAY 1, 1836, lithograph and manuscript ink on paper wove paper, shipping supplies listed...
[more like this] - SIGNED AND DATED DAVE DRAKE EDGEFIELD
JUG(Edgefield, South Carolina, b. circa 1800s, d. after 1873) attributed to Lewis Miles Stoneware Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, light olive green runny...
[more like this] - FERDINANDO ANDREI, (ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY),
GREEK SLAVE, 1859, MARBLE, HEIGHT: 21 IN.FERDINANDO ANDREI, (Italian, 19th century) Greek Slave, 1859, marble inscribed F. Andrei fece in Roma 1859 along base 1859, marble...
[more like this] - EPHEMERA, EARLY CURRENCY, AND MORE:
"SLAVE'S FRIEND" VOL. III NO. II, WHOLE NO. 26, FROM AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY IN NEW YORK;...Ephemera, early currency, and more: "Slave's Friend" Vol. III No. II, Whole...
[more like this] - Confederate state currency collection,
42 banknotes, 1840-1864: 18 North Carolina: 10 cent, 25 cent and $1 issue of Sept. 1, 1862, 25 cent on back of $1,000 bond coupon remainder ; 5 cent, 50 cent, 75 cent, $1,...
[more like this] - 1853 slave promissory note, partially
printed document specifically for slave rental purposes, obligating James Thomas, Jr. and Thomas C. Williams to pay Jnr[?] T. Eppes...
[more like this] - Southern stoneware verse-inscribed garden
tile signed Dave Savannah River Valley or Central Georgia dated 1869 press-molded form and triple scallop top with inverted pyramid design body modified Albany and unglazed...
[more like this] - Capt. George Randolph Dyer AQM--Lincoln-Signed
Commission and Pilot Knob Archive Comprising an early eagle mast head commission partially printed on vellum 12.25 x 15.75 in. matted framed and glazed 14.25 x 17.25 in. dated...
[more like this] - Letters Between the Sturges Brothers
Most Antebellum Including J.R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA These 58 letters encompass a "snapshot" of antebellum life in the South.Samuel Sturges (1774-1831) was born in Fairfield...
[more like this] - Archive of Documents Associated with
the Sturges Family Including John R. Sturges 3rd GA Infantry KIA The lot contains a variety of items including over 100 receipts and other ephemera an early indenture and...
[more like this] - 1857 slave promissory note, form partly
printed specifically for slave rental purposes, obligating James Thomas, Jr. to pay A. W. Nolting $150 "for the hire of One Negro Slave named Garrett…said Slave to be returned...
[more like this] - Two Bills of Sales for Slaves and Later
Notes and Photographs A view of slavery and the relationships between these social groups before and after the Civil War. The group includes a sale document for two slaves...
[more like this] - George Frederick Castleden (British/New
Orleans 1861-1945) "Old Slave Door New Orleans" oil on canvas board signed lower left 10 in. x 7 in. in a period frame. Note: George Castleden completed an etching of...
[more like this] - Confederate notes and Charleston Daily
Courier newspaper five-dollar Virginia Treasury note dated 1862 fifty-dollar note dated 1864 with Jefferson Davis portrait 2 one-hundred dollar notes dated 1863 with John...
[more like this] - Ben E. Green Politician & Colonel Unpublished
Handwritten Memoirs & Related Ephemera 406pp manuscript; 2 pamphlets. Ca 1900. It never ceases to amaze how so many arguments for the causes of the Civil come together combine...
[more like this] - Confederate States of America currency
and loan notes two $100 notes with steam engine vignette Aug. 14 and Oct 2nd 1862 issue; $100 note with slave vignette Oct. 25 1862; Bank of South Carolina: two 15¢ notes...
[more like this] - Scrapbook with Piece of Confederate
Flag and Ellsworth Relic Scrapbook 3/4 leather with brown cloth boards approx. 8 x 10 in. Assembled by an unknown hand the album contains just over 40 pages of trimmed and...
[more like this] - THE OLD PLANTATION BY ROBERT BUCHANAN
REED (KENTUCKY 1842-1920). Oil on artist board typed label on the back. Depiction of a plantation's slave quarters with numerous slaves. Contemporary black and gold frame...
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