Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee

John D. Ware, American, born ca. 1800 Unknown Hill, Ware, & Chrisp, American American John W. Chrisp American Byrd Hill

1850

Medium: ink on cardboard
Genre: Trade card
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

trade cards

Tags

businessslaveryDomestic slave tradeAmerican South

About

A trade card with printed black type for the slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp. Text on the obverse reads, "GREAT / NEGRO MART, / No. 87, ADAMS STREET, / MEMPHIS, --- TENN. / The undersigned would announce to the community at large, that they will keep/constantly on hand a / GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF NEGROES / AT PRIVATE SALE AND AT AUCTION. / They will also receive on commission (to Board or for Sale) any Negroes consigned / to their care. / All sales warranted as represented. / HILL, WARE & CHRISP." On the back, a handwritten inscription in black ink reads "S Ward + Jones / Send me a vile of / fine Branday / Hill Ware + Chrisp." Below in the bottom left corner is the name "R. Griffith" handwritten in graphite.