Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"OUR LADY OF MERCY" IS A SLAVER (PERUVIAN SLAVE DOCUMENTS.) Group of 5 Partly Printed Slave Documents, in Spanish, accomplished in manuscript. Each one page, small folio; each Signed by local officials. Lima, 1801-10

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In the earliest document, "Juana," eighteen years "give or take 6 months," a recent arrival on the ship "Our Lady of Mercy" in Valparaiso is sold for 500 pesos. In another, a slave named Francisco, aged 12, a recent arrival on the ship "Avila" is sold for 400 pesos.