National Museum of African American History and Culture
Letter to Samuel Fox from Giles Saunders regarding the slave trade
Samuel M. Fox, American, 1806 - 1864 · February 28, 1849
This letter was written in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 28, 1849, by Giles Saunders to Samuel Fox in Richmond, Kentucky. Saunders describes a recent sale of mules and notes, "I understand negroes is much hyer than last year" in reference to the market prices for enslaved people. The blue paper is folded in half with the letter on the right side and the address on the right side. A postmark dated February 28 from Charleston, South Carolina, is stamped in red ink above the address.
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