National Museum of African American History and Culture
Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"
P.J. Porcher & Baya Co., American, 1859 - ca. 1863 · 1859
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:
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