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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Historical Register. Vol. XVIII. London: S. Nevill, 1733.

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Estimate: $800 - $1,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$512

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Pennsylvania Gazette. No. 2209. Philadelphia, PA: David Hall and William Sellers, 25 April 1771.

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$288

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser. Vol. I, No. 12. Philadelphia, PA: William Goddard, 13 April 1767.

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$250

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SANCHO, Ignatius (circa 1729?-1780). Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London: J. Nichols: 1782.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$832

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)]. The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine. Philadelphia: William Young, May 1790.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$594

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. DAVIS, Ignatius (1759-1828). Thirty Dollars Reward. Ran away, on the 22d of August last, a handsome Negro Lad, named Arch, About twenty years of age. Frederick-Town, [MD]: John Winter, 7 September 1791.

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Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$3,125

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION].The Epistle from the Yearly-Meeting, Held in London...1791, Inclusive, To the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends in Great-Britain, Ireland, and Elsewhere. [Philadelphia?], 1791.

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Estimate: $400 - $500

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[LOUVERTURE, Toussaint. (1743-1803)]. DELPHEC, Francois Seraphim, lithographer, after Nicolas Eustache Maurin. Toussaint Louverture. [France, ca 1833].

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$500

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. ROLLET, "Citoyenne," engraver, after John Raphael Smith, after George Morland. Traite Des Nêgres. Paris: Francois Depeuille, ca 1794-1795.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,063

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Enslaved blacksmith Gabriel Prosser's capture, trial, and sentence covered in 2 issues of the Columbian Centinel. Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 11 and 14. Boston: Benjamin Russell, 8 and 18 October 1800.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$313

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RAY, William. Horrors of Slavery. Troy: Oliver Lyon, 1808.

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Estimate: $300 - $500

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [TURNER, Nat (1800-1831)]. Daily Evening Portland Advertiser. Vol. I, No. 205. Portland, ME: J. & W.E. Edwards, 30 August 1831.

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$320

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Descriptive essays on slavery published in 11 issues of The Vermont Chronicle. Windsor, VT: Richards and Tracy, 1833-1844.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$313

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, For 1839. Vol. 1. No. 4. Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society. New York: S.W. Benedict, 1839. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1839.

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$438

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[AFRICA] YOUNG, Samuel. A Missionary Narrative of the Triumphs of Grace. New York: G. Lane & P.P. Sandford, 1843.

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Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$219

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Florida Herald. Vol. VIII, No. 26. St. Augustine, FL: 7 November 1842.

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Estimate: $400 - $600

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$352

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript court document regarding an ownership dispute over enslaved woman named Clarissa. Montgomery County, GA, 9 October 1828.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$438

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Bill of sale for enslaved young man, "Anthony," New Jersey, 7 May 1832.

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Estimate: $700 - $900

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,500

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Bill of sale for enslaved man, "Harry," New Jersey, 27 June 1839.

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Estimate: $700 - $900

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,500

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Letter regarding disputed ownership of 2 enslaved persons, Decatur County [Georgia], April 10, 1861.

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Estimate: $500 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$640

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Estate account document recording sales of enslaved persons, Madison County, AL, 1844.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$375

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Ledger Documenting Bequeathment of Enslaved Peoples, ca 1839-1840.

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$750

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Handwritten medical bill for the treatment of enslaved persons, 1856.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$375

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Merchants' affidavits swearing not to sell liquor to persons of color, Dooly County, GA, February 1852.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$469

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Anti-Abolition Letter, Worcester, [MA], 5 September 1852.

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Estimate: $500 - $800

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$544

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CLARKE, Milton and Lewis. Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, during a Captivity of More than Twenty Years among the Slaveholders of Kentucky. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846.

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Estimate: $300 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$188

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns. Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,750

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HENSON, Joseph (1789-1881). Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of his Own Life. Boston; Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Co., Henry P. B. Jewett, 1858.

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Estimate: $300 - $400

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$375

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- A group of works about slavery, abolition, and its role in Kansas statehood, comprising:

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Estimate: $600 - $800

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [DRED SCOTT DECISION]. Hartford Evening Press. Vol. II, No. 8. Hartford, CT: 7 March 1857.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Price Realized Including Buyer's Premium

$1,125

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