Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"

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This broadside is an announcement for an estate sale of 229 enslaved men, women and children. The document consists of a single sheet of off-white paper, with a single fold to make four pages, with centered black type and handwritten inscriptions in ink and graphite. The front of the announcement reads: [ESTATE SALE! / 229 / RICE FIELD NEGROES / AN UNCOMMONLY PRIME and ORDERLY GANG / TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE NEGROES / BEING TWO GANGS IN ONE, AND COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE FORCES OF / "TRANQUILITY" AND "HARRIETTA" PLANTATIONS, / ON SANTEE RIVERS. / By P.J. PORCHER & BAYA / On THURSDAY the 20th day of January, 1859, / AT 11 O'CLOCK, A. M., WILL BE / Sold at Public Auction, / AT / RYAN'S MART, Chalmers-st.

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