Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHILD, LYDIA MARIA. "To Deprive a laborer of his wages. . . ." Sentiment Signed, with a contemporary photograph of Child. Small piece of note-paper and 3-1/4 x 2 inch albumen photograph mounted to a piece of paper. Np, circa 1850's

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"To deprive a laborer of his wages, and then hire an overseer to whip him to do his work, is as foolish economy as it would be to take the spring from a watch and then hire a boy to turn the hands around. L. Maria Child."