?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--MOUNT VERNON.) [WASHINGTON, JOHN AUGUSTINE.] Letter from slave dealer L.M.D. Moore regarding two black smiths and other slaves he has for sale at 'the terms mentioned in the advertisement.' Single folio leaf, folded to form four pages, written on one side, folded and addressed on the reverse for mailing Arlington: August 27, 1844
a slave dealer's letter, respecting an inquiry to an advertisement for a blacksmith: 'Dear Sir: Yours of the 19th is before me. One of the black smiths is 44 years of age, his is normally hired out at $13 dollars per month or $150 per year. He is I believe a good workman, he has a family. The other B smith is 30 years old, has a wife but no children. He can shoe horses and do other work necessary on a farm. They might be bought together for about $500 each for the terms mentioned in my advertisement. All the other men have wives I believe except one or two--- [ ? ] of them are about 38 or 40 years old. There is one man about 27 he has a wife.' The matter of fact language utilized in the commerce of human beings is truly chilling—what the noted political theorist Hannah Arendt referred to as the 'banality of evil.'
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