Skip to main content
You’re viewing our refreshed design —  Switch to the previous design ↗
Adv.
Home Item #688471
Three slave ads in an antebellum newspaper...
5 photographs · click to enlarge ⤢ Open zoom view

Three slave ads in an antebellum newspaper...

Item # 688471 ·
THE MEMPHIS DAILY AVALANCHE, Tennessee, March 14, 1859  From not long before the Civil War containing on the front page 2 illustrated ads for slaves, with details. One notes: "For Sale...A no. 1 cook and laundress..."; and the other "Valuable Plantation and Negroes..." with details. Another reward ad inside.
Four pages, cleanly cut at the spine with ample margin, tears at the right margin, some damp staining.
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$65
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.