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William Pitt []
30307
Price: $1,900.00
William Pitt is presented with an impt 5-page 1791 document on British trade
Slavery
54330
Price: $7,500.00
Documents and letters concerning Richard, a slave belonging to John McLean (“I hope he has been a dutiful Servant & may continue to serve you … you mentioned it was probable that you might wish to return to Ohio & in that event, you did not wish to own Slaves…”) Later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, McLean is especially remembered for his eloquent dissent in the Dred Scott case, arguing that Dred Scott was a U.S. citizen and that, even though born a slave, he was living in a free state where slavery was illegal.
Slavery
57383
Price: $3,500.00
Slave Shackle Apparatus with African carvings
Muhammad Ali
57488
Price: $8,750.00
Original Steve Kaufman artwork on an 80-pound punching bag and on an Everlast boxing glove signed by Muhammad Ali
Slavery
58030
Price: $600.00
Tennessean abolitionist asks Mississippi lawyers Miller & Kilpatrick to help him in his claim against a man who he is sure “will run off or dispose of his negroes rather than be forced to pay his just costs…” – eight years later, Col. Miller was killed at Gettysburg in Pickett’s Charge
SOLD for $495.00

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