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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Shumate, Walker D.
Circular of the Missouri
Colonization Society.
Printed circular letter, 9
3
/
4
x 7
1
/
2
inches, with blank integral address
leaf; folds, minor wear.
Rose Hill [St. Louis], MO, 31 May 1852
[300/400]
“
We have now applications for passage to Liberia from 16 emancipated slaves, residing in different
parts of the state, all of whom have received their freedom on condition that they emigrate to Liberia. . . .
Has not Africa claims upon us of the most exalted kind? For centuries her shores have been lined
with the slave ships of Christian nations.” Not in WorldCat, and no other copies have been traced.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
Pair of documents relating to a slave
acquired by Kentucky’s famous attorney general.
Partly-printed writ of execution,
6
1
/
2
x 7
1
/
2
inches, and manuscript mortgage bond, 12
1
/
2
x 7
1
/
2
inches, each signed by
Solomon P. Sharp; folds, minor wear.
Kentucky, 11 January and 16 March 1822
[400/600]
William S. Lofland owed a large sum to Christian Bank. The bank hired as its attorney
Solomon Porcius Sharp (1787-1825), who had served as a representative for Kentucky in
Congress, and was at this time Kentucky’s attorney general. Armed with a writ of execution,
Sharp acquired Lofland’s slave named Hannah on behalf of the bank. Lofland still owed a
mortgage for Hannah, though, so the related bond placed Sharp and the bank under obligation
to the state to make payment, and stipulated that they “shall not remove said negro out of the
state nor dispose of the same until the mortgage aforesaid shall be satisfied.”
Sharp was murdered in 1825 by the husband of a former lover, a sensational case which later
inspired works by Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Penn Warren.
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