Auction Closed
  • liveMarch 30, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
  • New York, NY, US

PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AFRICAN AMERICANA

300 lots

      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPh... image

      4: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. [The Scourged Back.]

      Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
      Sold:$75,000
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Duti... image

      7: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Duties of Masters to Servants: Three Premium Essays.

      Estimate: $600 - $900
      Sold:$531.25
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Busi... image

      10: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Business card of "J.W. Odell, Negro Broker."

      Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
      Sold:$5,200
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill... image

      12: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for a boat, and "the Negro man Curry who commands her."

      Estimate: $800 - $1,200
      Sold:$593.75
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Lett... image

      13: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter describing the slave markets of Montgomery, Alabama.

      Estimate: $600 - $900
      Sold:$3,750
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair... image

      17: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair of deeds for 20 enslaved people sold from South Carolina to Florida.

      Estimate: $600 - $900
      Sold:$1,625
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Esta... image

      18: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Estate inventory of a prominent Georgia planter naming 58 enslaved people.

      Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
      Sold:$1,187.5
      Sold price includes buyer's premium
      (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Comm... image

      19: (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Commissioner's Sale! . . . Eight Likely Negroes.

      Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
      Sold:$2,750
      Sold price includes buyer's premium