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Three 19th Century Letters With Slavery Content

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:19.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
Three 19th Century Letters With Slavery Content
<B>Three 19th Century Letters With Slavery Content.</B></I> A lot of three autograph letters with reference to various matters dealing with slavery. Includes a two page letter, 7.75” x 10”, New Orleans, December 13, 1858, with much slave content: “<I>New Orleans is a great place, full of people and “n---rs”, - a species of produce which is raised at the South, and which, I believe, is about as profitable produce as is raised here, as a good negro sound and kind, and well proportioned, as to points, will bring from $800 to $1500…</B></I>”, with the usual fold creases, else fine; a two page letter, 5” x 8”, on Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association letterhead, Philadelphia, July 17, 1864, from James McKim to H. H. Rossen, a transmittal letter for the latter's monthly salary, with the usual fold creases, else fine; and a four page letter, 5” x 8”, Newark, June 13, 1854, from Judge Joseph Hornblower to William Ropes, in which he opines legal opinions on runaway slaves with many references to Daniel Webster, with the usual fold creases, else very good. <I>Ex. Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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