?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SIGNER ON SLAVERY<\t>ELLERY, WILLIAM.Autograph Document Signed,"Wm Ellery Coll," as Collector of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island, an affadavit by Benjamin Hadwen testifying that a Spanish Ship named Cleopatra in the Port of Newport "is intended for the slave trade." Additionally Signed by Hadwen. 1/2 page, single large 8vo sheet; usual folds.<\t>Newport, 10 February 1816
Ellery (1727-1820) Signer from Rhode Island, member of Congress 1776-86, Collector of Customs at Newport 1790-1820. Throughout the 18th century, Newport was considered the hub of the Notorious Triangle, the trade of rum distilled in Rhode Island to West Africa for slaves to be sold in the West Indies for mollasses to make the rum. Rhode Island was the first state to free its slaves in 1774. Although most states ended the slave trade by about 1800, the trade into America legally continued until Congress abolished it in 1808.<
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