Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Manuscript Legal Deposition, taken from a free Black and relating to business dealings of his former master. One page, 4to; tear and loss of blank paper where formerly sealed. Middletown, New Jersey, 6 January 1791

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An interesting case in which an ex-slave gives testimony regarding transactions involving coal by his former master. Signed with an "X" by the former slave, Mark Winthrop.