(AUCTION BROADSIDE) Cooper River Rice Field Negroes By Condy

Sale 2105 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 11,400

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000

"ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX NEGROES," WITH THEIR NAMES AND PRICES (AUCTION BROADSIDE.) Cooper River Rice Field Negroes. By Condy & Dawes, On Thursday, 15th Feb. inst. Will be sold at the North side of the Custom House at 11 o'clock. One Hundred and Twenty-Six Negroes, Accustomed to the culture of Rice and Provisions. Broadside, 13 1/2x8 inches, creases where folded; contemporary iron gall ink note at the bottom: "The above Gang have arrived and may be seen at the Charleston Neck Work House, Feby. 14th, 1849; 2 small monograms, "BCL" on reverse from the noted collection of Bella C. Landauer. Charleston: Samuel Stent Miller, (1849)

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A rare Charleston slave dealer's annotated broadside program for the sale of slaves at Charleston Neck. The names and ages of each slave, as well as their qualifications are given. Their ages range from "Peggy, 68," whose named was crossed off, to "Snow, 2-1/2." To the right, the dealer has noted what seem to be the opening bids and next to those, the final prices realized for each slave. Some of these pencilled figures seem to have been gone over, as though whoever was writing it down got the figure wrong in the course of the bidding. Pencilled brackets seem to indicate that many of these slaves were sold in family groups. On the reverse, the author of these notes has done calculations in pencil for what is apparently a breakdown of the sale: "Mrs. M. for plant. $17,750, [ditto] for her own slaves $11,525, [ditto] joint stock Negroes," Mrs. GL for plant. 17,750. . ." There is also a note regarding what was offered in 1848. Not listed in Hummell.