March 28, 2019 1:30 PM EDT - New York, NY, US
- Auction Details
PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AFRICAN AMERICANA
402 lots
1: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Agreement for an American slave ship captain to bring an illegal cargo of slaves from Africa to Havana.
2: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa.
3: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) An Act for Extending and Improving the Trade to Africa.
4: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Plan of an African Ship's Lower Deck, with Negroes in the Proportion of Not Quite One to a Ton.
5: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Sala, F.; lithographer. [The Slave Trade--Slaves on the West Coast of Africa.]
6: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Group of 3 London printings of important slavery narratives.
7: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.
8: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Mason, Isaac. Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave.
9: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Rutling, Thomas. Tom, an Autobiography, with Revised Negro Melodies.
10: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Mingo, Cesar. Deed of a house by a Massachusetts "malatto man."
11: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Description of land sold by a free African-American couple in 1732.
12: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Pair of Virginia marriage licenses issued to free African Americans.
14: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Agreement to sell an enslaved man named Peter, with an unusual oath of good behavior sworn by Peter.
15: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for a "negro boy named Harry" in New Jersey.
16: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Group of 8 deeds and bills of sale for enslaved people.
17: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Pair of slave bills of sale from Missouri.
18: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Manuscript tax book for Truro Parish, Virginia, noting Washington, Lee, and Mason family slaves.
19: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Archive of letters to John Augustine Washington III at Mount Vernon, many discussing enslaved people.
20: (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Henderson, James. Letter to George Washington's nephew regarding the purchase of slaves.
