Broadside for sale of enslaved woman and children from estate of Joseph McCoy

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A one-sided document printed in black ink reading: "ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF NEGROES!! The undersigned will, on the first day of January, 1850, offer for sale, to the highest bidder, at Flint Hill, in the county of St. Charles, a negro woman and child, and two likely boys from five to eight, belonging to the estate of Joseph McCoy, dec'd to be sold in obedience to an order of the County Court of St. Charles, made at the November term 1849. TERMS.--Twelve months credit, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. A. Broadhead, adm'r. of Joseph McCoy, dec'd. Nov. 28, 1849."

Explore Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ↗