?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) SPANISH SLAVE DEALER. 'On the 7th of April of 1804, I bought a Negro on the Coast of Mozambique." Large folio sheet of laid paper, 16 x 12 inches, with a very large watermark depicting a 'picador' prodding a bull; folded several times to form an envelope, written in red cochineal ink. [Spain], circa 1808
An unusual document explaining the purchase of two slaves, more than likely written out by a slave dealer for a client in Spain or one of her colonies. The slaver has written in Spanish, 'On the 7th of April of 1804 I bought a Negro in Macoa on the coast of Mozambique. His name was Sapari, I re-named him Jose Maria. The price 475 pesetas. Not baptized.' He lists a second slave, a woman, bought in the interior of Mozambique for 460 pesetas in 1806.
