<1861 newspaper GEORGIA Florida SLAVERY MAP Black Americana SLAVE Demographics for Sale

<1861 newspaper GEORGIA Florida SLAVERY MAP Black Americana SLAVE Demographics For Sale

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<1861 newspaper GEORGIA Florida SLAVERY MAP Black Americana SLAVE Demographics:
$38.00

1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper with GORGEOUS full front-page shaded map of GEORGIA and northern FLORIDA depicting SLAVE POPULATION BY COUNTY across that portion of the deep south. -inv #1P-115

SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theHarper's Weekly Illustrated Newspaper (NY, NY) dated December 14, 1861 with GORGEOUS full front-page shaded map of GEORGIA and northern FLORIDA depicting SLAVE POPULATION BY COUNTY across that portion of the deep south, with the lighter areas having less slaves and the darker areas having more. Inside is an article expanding on a few of the statistics.

COMPELLING BLACK AMERICANA from the days when SLAVERY REIGNED!!

Perfect for framing an hanging along side your fine Civil War collection!!

The slaves remained at the race-course, some of them for more than a week and all of them for four days before the sale. They were brought in thus early that buyers who desired to inspect them might enjoy that privilege, although none of them were sold at private sale. For these preliminary days their shed was constantly visited by speculators. The negroes were examined with as little consideration as if they had been brutes indeed; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound; and in addition to all this treatment, asking them scores of questions relative to their qualifications and accomplishments.

All these humiliations were submitted to without a murmur and in some instances with good-natured cheerfulness - where the slave liked the appearance of the proposed buyer, and fancied that he might prove a kind 'mas'r.'

The following curiously sad scene is the type of a score of others that were there enacted:

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