Title

Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel M. Fox concerning the slave trade, April 17, 1848. Creator: Samuel M. Fox.

Caption

This letter was written in Madison County, Kentucky, on April 17, 1848, by Samuel M. Fox to Giles Saunders in Richmond, Virginia. Fox writes of his success in selling several enslaved people and about concerns of the prices for enslaved people around Lexington, Kentucky, due to the instability of the market price for cotton. The paper is folded in half with the right side having the correspondence and the left side the address. A postmark dated April 18 from Lexington, Kentucky, is stamped in blue ink over the address.

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HRM21A73_167

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Keywords

agriculture people black country market trade letter museum paper plantation text location century handwriting documents papers paperwork document ownership property correspondence African American African-American B&W owner afro-american slavery cotton Plantation United States of America 19th century black & white black and white American South B W nineteenth century heritage American America USA slave trade cotton market united states Saunders Giles cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art money letters (correspondence) Samuel M. Fox Fox Samuel M. Fox Samuel Samuel Fox Giles Saunders