THE DAILY DELTA, New Orleans, Sept. 14, 1850  

* Rare antebellum publication
* From the deep, deep South

Newspapers from the pre-Civil War South are rather difficult to find. Here is one from Louisiana.
The front page has an illustrated ad: "$20 Reward" for a runaway mulatto boy. Inside are ads for: "Negro Clothing" two more reward ads for a runaway, and an ad headed: "One Negro Man" among other items being auctioned, noting of him: "A certain negro man, slave for life, named William, aged about 18 years...".
Four pages, archivally rejoined at the spine, nice condition.

Background: This issue of The Daily Delta (New Orleans, September 14, 1850) provides a striking snapshot of the commercial and legal apparatus that sustained the institution of slavery in the antebellum Deep South. Its pages contain multiple human property listings, including an illustrated front-page ad offering a "$20 Reward" for the capture of a runaway young mulatto boy, along with two additional runaway notices inside the four-page issue. Alongside advertisements for specialized merchandise like "Negro Clothing," the paper features a prominent public auction notice for an eighteen-year-old enslaved man named William—described explicitly as a "slave for life"—demonstrating how human beings were routinely listed alongside real estate and personal property in local trade publication, just days before the passage of the landmark Federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.