Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2697, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
350 Francis De Pau.

(SLAVE TRADE.) Letter of recommendation by a slave ship owner, carried aboard a known voyage on the Middle Passage. Letter Signed to William Anderson of South Africa

Charleston, SC 5 May 1807 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
351

(SLAVE TRADE.) Receipt for 37 enslaved people sold to a trader in present-day Liberia for transport to America

St. Paul's River [Liberia] 1 July 1813 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
352

(SLAVE TRADE.) Description of 418 people rescued from a Portuguese slave ship by the British navy

Sierra Leone 27 May 1814 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
353

(SLAVE TRADE.) Notes on the interrogation of two Spanish slave-traders in Sierra Leone

[Sierra Leone] 15 July 1814 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
354

(SLAVE TRADE.) Summary of slaves rescued by a British ship in the West African Squadron. Autograph Document Signed by George Macaulay as Marshall

No place 16 September 1815 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
355

(SLAVE TRADE.) Documentation of a slave sale gone wrong among American expat merchants in Havana

Various places 1806-1832 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
356

(SLAVE TRADE.) Rules to be Observed on Board Ships Carrying Liberated African Emigrants from St. Helena to the West Indies

Helena 26 October 1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
357 [McPherson & Oliver; photographers.]

(SLAVERY.) [The Scourged Back.]

Baton Rouge, LA circa 1863 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Unknown
358

(SLAVERY.) Newspaper accounts of two early slave rebellions, one in Curacao and one on a slave ship off the coast of Africa, in an issue of the "New-York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy."

New York 6 August 1750 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
359

(SLAVERY.) Pair of bills of sale for enslaved people sold by the Hagan family in Revolutionary Maryland

Maryland 1775 and 1780 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
360 Alexander Leslie.

(SLAVERY.) Letter offering the return of Georgia's enslaved people to their owners by the evacuating British army. Autograph Letter Signed as Lieutenant General in the British Army, to Governor John Martin of Georgia

Charleston, SC 19 November 1782 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
361 Daniel Horsmanden.

(SLAVERY.) The New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot

New York 1810 USD 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
362

(SLAVERY.) A Valuable Sugar Plantation, and a Large Gang of Acclimated Negroes, for Sale at Auction

New Orleans, LA 29 January [1833] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
363

(SLAVERY.) Valuable Acclimated Slaves, for Sale by Auction by Isaac L. M'Coy

New Orleans, LA 1 March 1836 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
364

(SLAVERY.) Valuable Slaves at Auction: Field Hands, Laborers, and House Servants

New Orleans, LA 10 January [1857] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
365

(SLAVERY.) A Gang of 82 Choice Plantation Slaves! from Georgia . . . Will Be Sold at the City Hotel

[New Orleans, LA] 6 April [1859] USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
366 [Venture Smith.]

(SLAVERY.) A Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States

New London, CT 1835 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
367 Solomon Northup.

(SLAVERY.) Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of . . . a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington

Auburn, NY 1853 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
368

(SLAVERY.) $100 Reward. Ranaway from My Camp in Manchester . . . a Negro Boy Named John

Richmond, VA 1 July 1856 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
369

(SLAVERY.) Collection of pro and anti-slavery pamphlets

Various places 1849-1860 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
370

(SLAVERY.) New York Court of Appeals

New York 1860 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
371

(SLAVERY.) Extensive letters discussing 3 enslaved people who had been loaned from North Carolina to Texas

Various places 1852-1856 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
372 William W. Rockwell.

(SLAVERY.) Union officer's letter with a biographical description of his formerly enslaved servant

Ship Island, MS 11 April 1862 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
373 [George N. Barnard, photographer.]

(SLAVERY.) Stereoview of an Atlanta slave market

New York [1864] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
374

(SLAVERY.) Letter describing a celebration for Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the last slave voyage to America

Mobile, AL 1931-10-23 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown