[Slave sale]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09339 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 25 September 1852 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy
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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