Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CAMPBELL, ROBERT. Legal opinion regarding the status of a slave brought from New York to New Jersey in 1825. Large 4to leaf, written on one side, and signed; creases where folded; some soiling and wear at the folds. Np (New York?) 1825

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A complex legal opinion regarding the status of Ned Thompson, a slave who was taken from the state of New York to the state of New Jersey by an overseer. In part: "According to the clause (?) in 1st Pennington's Reports page 413-414-15, The purchasing of a slave in the state of New York and bringing him into the state of New Jersey unless it was done with an intent at the time to sell him again, it does not make him free."