[Slave sale]

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GLC#
GLC09339
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
25 September 1852
Title
[Slave sale]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 p. :
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Charleston slave sale by Louis D. De Saussure: "On Thursday…will be sold at Ryan's Mart, in Chalmers Street,…a prime gang of 25 Negroes, accustomed to the culture of Sea Island Cotton and Rice." Lists the enslaved people by with their names, ages and occupations. Ryan's Mart, one of most famous slave markets in the South, is the only known building used as slave auction gallery still in existence in South Carolina, and America's oldest slavery museum.

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