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Slave AuctionEntry/Object ID
9999.BHF.202Scope and Content
Slave Auction.
Sale Bill for auction of Negroes. The sale was Thursday the third day of August. Thirty-nine men, fifteen boys, twenty four women and sixteen girls. Just arrived in the Brigantine Dembia, Francis Bare, Mafter, from Sierra Leon by David and John Deas, 1769. In 1769 slaves accounted for over half of the population in Carolina.
A handwritten note states 114,931 slaves-1860 9.7%
Less than 3% of slave population in U.S. in 1860 in Missouri
Most in 20 counties along Missouri River
24,320 slave masters less than 10% - 30% had less than 5
Slave traders more or less permanent in St. Joseph
Best known in St. Louis center for shipping to deep South.
Act of 1847 forbade any person to teach negroes or mulattees to read or write.
1875 Segregation of blacks and whites mandatory.
Photocopy of sale bill for sale of slaves. Because of a departure for Europe, the sale was Saturday May 16 at 12.00 p.m. 10 slaves were to be sold. New Orleans, May 13, 1835 .
A photocopy of the sale of a Negro boy named Lewis, about 12 years old to David Hunt for $400 to claim forever. The sale was in Platte County, 1839 and a photocopy of the sale of a Negro man 33 years old named Willis for $200 to Zadock Martin The seller was Felix G. Mullikire.
There are two photocopy pages from a magazine about Auction and Negro sales. It tells stories about the Underground Railroad. There are pictures in this article.Collection
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