(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) 100 Reward Ran Away a Small Mulat

Sale 2562 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,250

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

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) $100 Reward! Ran Away . . . a Small Mulatto Woman Named . . . Caroline Green or Glasgow. Letterpress broadside, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; worn with minimal text loss, moderate dampstaining, tape stains in upper corners; later owner's inscription on verso. Warrenton, VA, 18 August 1854

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"Said woman is about twenty years old, a bright Mulatto about five feet high, and well set; she has a short nose turned up; a large mouth and bad teeth; long wavy hair." The owner, Richard Henry Foote (1798-1864), was a very wealthy planter, with almost $200,000 in assets in the 1860 census. None traced in OCLC or elsewhere.