?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION---DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.) Anthony Smith of Georgetown sells his slave boy Jacob, age sixteen, stipulating that he is to be freed in 20 years. Single folio leaf, written on both sides, signed by all concerned parties, with a long note, signed from a magistrate making it all legal Georgetown, DC, July 10, 1824
Anthony Smith, in a moment of magnanimity, sells his sixteen-year-old boy slave Jacob to Nathan Childs of Ann Arundel County for $225--with the proviso that after 20 years, Jacob may buy himself free for the sum of one dollar. Jacob would have been 36 years old when he attained his freedom.
