(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) SLAVE DEALERS A Card Blount Dawson

Sale 2171 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 2,880

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

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

SLAVE DEALER'S BUSINESS CARD (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) SLAVE-DEALERS. A Card. Blount & Dawson, General Brokers for the Purchase and Sale of Negro and Other Property. Letterpress, printed slave-dealers' business card, 2 1/2x3 1/2 inches, printed on glazed white paper, slightly discolored at the edges; several pencil notes on the reverse that seem to be addresses. Savannah, circa 1850's

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A rare example of a slave-dealer/broker''s business card. At the bottom is printed a recommendation from the local sheriff or magistrate Wm. Wright: "Having leased the above gentlemen my offices and jail, would take pleasure in recommending them to my patrons and the public generally." A further note from the dealers advises potential patrons of the safety of the jail where slaves are held before sale.