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69
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—SLAVE DEALERS.)
Hill, Ware & Chrisp.
Great Negro Mart No. 57 Adams Street, Memphis Tennessee.
Business card, 1
7
⁄
8
x 4
inches, printed on glazed white paper-covered cardstock,
WITH A NOTE IN INK OF THE
REVERSE FROM CO
-
OWNER HILLMAN CHRISP
. The card is in excellent condition.
Memphis, circa 1860-1861
[3,000/4,000]
A VERY SCARCE SLAVE DEALER
’
S CALLING CARD
,
WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION
.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-
1877) is best known for his
post war connection with the
birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
But before the war he was a
wealthy businessman and owner
of a large slave yard at Adams
Street in Memphis. Attached to
that slave yard was his large
and impressive residence. In July
of 1859, he sold the house and
the attached slave yard to Byrd
Hill, friend and business associ-
ate. Messrs Hill and Company
even cited the fact that the yard
had belonged to Forrest in their
later advertising.
The card bear an interesting note on the reverse “Strand (?) G. Jones, send me a vile of fine branday
(sic), Hillman Chrisp” - beneath that, a florid signature “R. Griffith.”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—LOUISIANA.)
Manuscript “commission” to auctioneer Juan
Manuel Moreno, to offer at “public sale” 12 slaves
plus the contents of the house and barns of Mr.
John Kleinpeter of Baton Rouge.
Bi-folium leaf,
folded to form four pages, written on three sides and
docketed on the fourth; crease where folded; some light
toning to the blue-tinted paper. (WGC)
Baton Rouge, 1848
[1,000/1,500]
A legal instrument signing over the entire estate of the late John
Kleinpeter to auctioneer Juan Manuel Moreno, with stipulation
that the bids on the slaves, must reach the “reserves” placed to the
right of their names and paid for in cash. The Kleinpeter, or
Clempetre family were early settlers in what was once Spanish
territory. Their lands consisted of at least four large land grants
from Spanish Crown in the late 18th century.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) C.E. GIRARDEY
& CO. SLAVE DEALERS.
Valuable Slaves at Auction . . .
Will be Sold at Auction.. . .
Letterpress broadside, 16
1
⁄
8
x 7
7
⁄
8
inches; affixed to a piece of old ledger paper; discol-
oration in several places; edges trimmed at an early date.
SOLD AS IS
(WGC)
[New Orleans], 1859
[1,500/2,500]
DESPITE ITS POOR CONDITION
,
AN IMPORTANT BROADSIDE
.
