$85
Manuscript contract, 1 page, 4to, dated October 8, 1842. Richard H. Dyson (slave-owner), for the sale of his carpenter, "Race," aged between 30 and 35, for seven hundred dollars. Race was to be rented out for one hundred and twenty-five dollars per year to W. B. Stone, who was currently renting him. Some brown spotting; minor chipping along folds; otherwise fine. Together with Vol. 9, No. 26. Concord, N. H., Friday, August 18, 1843, an important anti-slavery newspaper of the mid nineteenth-century.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-08-12