Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 3,910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ADVERTISEMENT FOR SLAVES TO WORK ON THE RAILROADSWanted, For the Year 1856, Fifty able-bodied Negro Men, to lay Track on the Mobile and Girard Railroad. Broadside advertisement, offering $180 per annum to owners of slaves for the use of their men, 8 1/2x10 inches; washed and archivally re-backed, some spots and creases apparent. Georgia, 1856
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A highly unusual "want ad" for labor on the Mobile and Girard Railroad. In addition to the $180 per annum, the railroad offered "good security," meaning that they would make certain the slaves didn't run away.<