Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Genre
- Broadsides
Styles
Tags
agricultureFinanceLabor unionsslaverySkilled laborDomestic slave tradeAmerican SouthFamily
About
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:
![[Women and children seated at a table]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f42625ce-49cb-4dd5-8177-0c8663f8c6cb/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Elephantine Island, Aswan]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a8e397b3-3ea3-48b9-b8df-64d4fd1b8acc/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Two women]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e695696f-b995-47e5-afc1-04b53c3782b1/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
