Sujet

Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse, 1859. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

A broadside advertising a court-ordered sale of enslaved persons at the courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 10, 1859. The paper is printed in black ink with hand-written annotations along columns printed with the first names and ages of ninety-nine [99] enslaved men, women, and children. The names are numbered and grouped together into subsets.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A72_436

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

346,8Mo (16,0Mo) / 74,9cm x 116,0cm / 8847 x 13703 (300dpi)

Mots clés

education country trade museum paper location century sale papers paperwork document ownership Charleston South Carolina property African American African-American B&W auction owner afro-american slavery slave slaves United States of America Smithsonian Institution 19th century black & white black and white B W Educational Institution nineteenth century heritage American America USA scientific institution slave trade TGN united states Unknown Ink on paper cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art enslaved person enslaved people National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC broadsides