Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THE BURIAL OF SLAVERY (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Journal & Confederate newspaper, Vol. 1, No. 35. 2 pages, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, on one sheet; toning, folds, and moderate wear including loss to right side affecting several words. Camden, SC, 1865

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Newspaper from the small town of Camden, SC, located about twenty miles northeast of Columbia. This issue was published a month after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, and a week after Jefferson Davis's capture and the official cessation of hostilities. The main article details the celebration entitled "The Burial of Slavery" held at Charleston, including a parade and oratory: "The various black guilds of the city, consisting of the tailors, bricklayers, scissors grinders, &c . . . were soon formed into order or organized as a procession by the mounted marshals and other masters of the ceremonies--for masters of some kind were found necessary and could not well be dispensed with on the occasion." The paper also mentions the sinking of the steamboat Sultana, the worst maritime disaster in American history.