(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Administrators Sale at the Elliston

Sale 2631 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 4,500

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

Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Administrators Sale . . . at the Elliston Plantation . . . Consisting of the Following Slaves. Letterpress broadside, 21 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches, signed in type by administrators John Routh and Elias Ogden; folds, moderate wear, a few contemporary manuscript marks, laid down on tissue, spot-mounted to modern archival mat board. Mounted with two related manuscript fragments, one signed by Routh and Ogden. Adams County, MS, 7 April 1841

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An exceptionally large administrators' sale of the estate of Thomas G. Ellis (1805-1838) of Elliston Plantation near Natchez. 170 of his enslaved people are named, and 21 of the women are offered with an unnamed child, presumably infants. A few of them are given descriptive names, including Big Jesse and Little Jesse, Old Jenny, and "Harry (dark)." A twisted patriotic streak is suggested by the names America, Washington, and George Washington. Many are listed with surnames other than Ellis, suggesting that they were acquired from other masters. The livestock and farming equipment of the plantation was on the block as well.