1864 Virginia Plantation Ledger Pages Listing Slave Hire

2 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 pages, in ink, on brown necessity paper. For the months of January and February 1864. List of expenses which includes hiring out negroes. From the Blick family papers. They lived near Petersburg, Va. Light age toning and wear. Very fine, war date document.  

1863 Receipt For Hire of a Slave

7 1/2 x 4, manuscript in ink. Receipt for the hire of the negro boy Sam for a year at the cost of $15.00. Dated Nov. 25, 1863. Signed by M.W. Smith. Light age toning and wear. Very fine, war date, slave hire receipt. This document originated out of the Petersburg, Va. area.  

1856 Virginia Tax Receipt Listing Slaves

6 1/2 x 4, imprinted form, filled out in ink. Tax receipt for Mrs. Cary H. Chandler, 1856, To the Sheriff of Halifax, [Virginia]. Among the property listed are 4 Slaves. Signed on the reverse, By Cash in full 5.16. A.G. Britton. Light age toning and wear. Very fine.  

Engraving, Is All Dem Yankees Dat's Passing

Authentic, original woodcut engraving that was published in the January 7, 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly. Caption reads: Is All Dem Yankees Dat's Passing. One of the most amusing as well as most striking features of Sherman's march through Georgia was the utter amazement of the people, black and white, of the hitherto unvisited regions through which the army passed, at the immense numbers of the Yankees. Our Artist sends us a portrait from life of one of the colored population, who watched, hour after hour, the endless columns of blue coats cheerfully...  

Doctor Bill for Visiting Sick Slaves

7 3/4 x 4, manuscript in ink.

Itemized list of charges on the account of Samuel Kent, dating from May 9, 1855, to May 22, 1855, for visits to the Stovall Plantation to treat negroes. Includes charges for visiting negro, negro girl, and woman, and medicine for negro woman and her children. Light age toning and wear. Very fine. This document originated from Halifax County, Va. Very desirable.  

The Daily Delta, New Orleans, December 5, 1861

Includes advertisements for Slave auctions and sales!

4 pages. Confederate Aid to Kentucky. News From our Army in the West. Captain Charles Wilkes of the San Jacinto. The Trent Affair. The Cotton Question in England. General Sterling Price's Column. Arrival of the Confederate Steamer Nashville. Large Naval Force Inside the Savannah Bar. Attack on Pulaski Anticipated. Christmas and New Year Free Lottery For the Benefit of the Louisiana Volunteers and Their Families. Slaves for sale and hire advertisements. Numerous military ads, and much...  

National Anti-Slavery Standard, November 11, 1841

4 pages. New York, Thursday, November 11, 1841. Without Concealment....Without Compromise. Lydia Maria Child, Editor. David Lee Child, Assistant Editor. Published Weekly by the American Anti-Slaverty Society, 143 Nassau Street, New York. Spiritual Condition of the Colored People in the South. An Abstract of the Speech of Dr. Harris Before the New Hampshire Congregational and Presbyterian Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Free People of Color. Extraordinary Case of Slave Sale at the St. Louis Exhange for the Exorbitant Price of $8,000. The Philadelphia...  

1854 Slave Bill of Sale, De Soto Parish, Louisiana

7 1/2 x 12, 2 pages, in ink.

State of Louisiana
Parish of De Soto

Be it remembered that on this the ninth day of December A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty four, in pursuance of an order of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court, in & for De Soto Parish, and State of Louisiana, and by virtue of a commission to us directed by said Court, We, Nancy Buchanan and Wilson G. Buchanan, Administrators of the succession of Samuel Buchanan, have this day proceeded to the late residence of Samuel Buchanan, in the Parish & State aforesaid and...  

Forney's War Press, Philadelphia, October 31, 1863

8 pages. Beautiful large illustrated mast head with eagle, warship, cannon, and soldier's in battle. Large woodcut engraving on the front page titled Rebel Deserters in the Mountains of North Carolina. Stories include: The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Henry Ward Beecher at Manchester. The Slave Power and England. The Contrabands. Emancipation. Colored Schools in New Orleans. Recruiting of Negroes in Maryland. The Freedmen in Virginia. The Raid on Pennsylvania. Governor Andrew G. Curtin and the Late [Gettysburg] Campaign. A Worthy Tribute to Governor Curtin....  

1853 Slave Bill of Sale, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana

2 pages, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4, manuscript in ink.

The State of Louisiana
Parish of St. Helena

Be it remembered that on this second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three- Before me, C.D. Strickland Jr., a Notary Public, in and for said parish and State duly commissioned and qualified as such & in the presence of Dr. Wellington W. Carter and Abraham Frank, witnesses of proper age and residence in such parish- Personally came and appeared, Daniel M. Patterson, a resident of the County of Jefferson, State of...  

1864 South Carolina Plantation Letter

Father scolds his son regarding his slave

2 pages, 7 3/4 x 12 1/4, in ink, written by Thomas McKim, to his son.

Woodlawn, So. Ca., 9 Oct. 1864

Dear Son,

Yours of the 29th Sept. has been received and this Sunday morning I seat myself to reply to it. I must confess that I am somewhat surprised at the tone of it, and what I can hear from other sources, some of your friends, and I thought mine, had told you more about my own matters than I could myself, or even God that knows everything could. Your informer...  

The Daily Delta, New Orleans, November 30, 1861

Includes advertisements for Slave auctions and sales!

4 pages. Arrival of the Powhatan; Her Chase After the Sumter. General M. Jeff Thompson; Capture of the Platte Valley. Special Dispatches To Daily Delta. The Enemy at Work in Mississippi Sound. IMPORTANT FROM SAVANNAH. 25,000 Federals at Fort Walker. Also Sixty Three Vessels. Expedition Against Charleston and Savannah. South Carolinians Burning Cotton. 600,000 Federals Under Arms. Election of Confederate Senators. Attack on Columbus Rapidly Approaching. The Bombardment of Fort Pickens....