(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) FLORIDA Manuscript document listing

Sale 2271 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 1,440

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

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) FLORIDA. Manuscript document listing the names and prices realized for six slaves sold at public auction. Single large 4to leaf, written on one side, signed by the administrator and the widow of the owner of the slaves on the reverse with an "X". Marianna, Jackson County, FL, January 7, 1850

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A list of six individuals from the estate of Joseph Patterson sold at public auction, describing each with the price realized and an occasional comment: Two of these poor souls were "Bid off by a song for the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson." Negro Girl Margaret and Negro boy Charlie were both "Bid off by a song" for $401.00 and $166.00, both exceptionally low prices indeed for young slaves. It seems possible that this was a local sale, and that the two slaves were favorites and allowed to be bought by the widow at low prices by tacit agreement. The remaining four slaves all fetched higher prices.