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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
LOUISIANA.
Three legal documents:
Two official bills of sale for slaves;
another for 25 slaves as collateral for
bank shares.
Uniform folio, various pag-
ination; excellent condition.
SHOULD BE
SEEN
.
Louisiana, 1834-7
[400/600]
Three interesting documents: one for the sale of
a young man named Bill, aged 26; the other a
sale of 25 slaves, amended to 24 because one
died before the deal was concluded and another
for 18 slaves used as collateral for shares in the
Citizen’s Bank of Louisiana. The owner
admits that the slaves were not on the property
they were supposed to be on, because they were
working on another of his properties.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [LOVEJOY, ELIJAH].
Alton Trials of
Winthrop Gilman, who was indicted . . . for the Crime of Riot . . . while
Engaging in Defending a Printing Press.
Engraved frontispiece, 158 pages. 12mo,
original publisher’s patterned cloth; early stains and foxed.
New York, 1838
[300/400]
The account of the trial of the rioters that burnt the abolitionist press of Elijah Lovejoy who died in
the melee. An important event in the history of freedom of the press in the United States.