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Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography.
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Lot 219

[SLAVERY] 1833 Georgia Slave Indenture

Estimate: $250 - $500
Current Bid
$100

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Manuscript document signed by Henry Wood. Monroe County, Georgia, 1833. 1 page, folio, 7 11/16 x 12 1/2 in. Endorsed by Alfred Brooks on 10 January 1834 to verso. Docketing to verso.

 

A Georgia bill of sale for two named enslaved individuals, Lewis and Eliza. They were purchased for $746.56 and 1/4 cents, to be paid before Christmas, by Henry Woods from Alfred Brooks. The document names and describes the enslaved: "a certain Negro Man Slave by the name of Lewis about twenty two years of age, and a certain Negro Girl Slave by the name of Eliza about six years of age."

 

An early colonial Georgia bill of sale. 

 

[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation]  [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

 

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