Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AUCTION BROADSIDE.) 100 Negroes for Sale. Broadside, 16x12 inches, creases where folded, some very minor loss of paper at the folds, affecting one word of the text ("for"), understandable in context; paper toned with a few discolored spots. Mobile, AL: December 18th, 1850

Additional Details

"The subscriber will sell at Public Auction, at his former Plantation, on the Yellow Bluff, near Arcola, and six miles from Demopolis, all his Negroes; stock, consisting of 25 mules and horses, 3 yoke of oxen, 60 cows and calves, 60 sheep, and 200 head of hogs; also 3 large wagons . . . 2 fine gins, nearly new, an 1 Spinning Jenny. . ." All of this offered together with all of his land and houses.