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Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Autograph Letter, from the trading firm of Samuel Vernon, to Alexander Willock a merchant, regarding a shipment of slaves, and instructing him to convert the profits into sugar and rum. One page, folio; taken from a ledger book and having ledger entries regarding Vernon's business on the verso. [Rhode Island], 21 March 1766
Letter basically concerns shipping rum and sugar, but the postscript is of interest, "We beg the Favor of you to acquaint us the number and Quality of the Slaves Rogers sold on his own account and the Price they sold for." The Vernon family of Rhode Island was one of the more prominent slave dealing families in 18th century America. Large portions of monies gained from the slave-trade was given by the Vernons to finance both Brown University and Princeton University.
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