Sale 788 - Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views (#788) 05/18/2023 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/18/2023 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-10 of 22. Previous|123|Next Lot #1 Letter by future Chief Justice, about to help give birth to the new Republican Party Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)AuthorChase, Salmon P.HeadlineLetter by future Chief Justice who helped found GOPDate PublishedOct. 19, 1853 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #2 Letters showing the groundbreaking realignment of the American political system around the slavery issue Heading(African American - Anti-Slavery)HeadlinePolitical collaboration of Whigs and Free Soil DemocratsDate Published1847-1849 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #3 Letter about feud with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and search for fugitive slave Heading(African American, 1817)AuthorElliott, Jesse DuncanHeadlineUS Naval hero tracks his fugitive slaveDate PublishedAugust 17, 1817 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #4 Letter from Canadian American witnessing slave auction Heading(African American, 1836)AuthorBaxter, JamesHeadlineCanadian American sees Charleston Slave auctionDate PublishedDec. 14, 1836 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #5 Letter from Maine newly-weds who moved to northern Tennessee to open a school, writing home describing their culture shock at life in the slave South Heading(African American, 1838)AuthorWhitman, Angelia Smith and Edwin WhitmanHeadlineNew Englanders experience culture shock in TennesseeDate PublishedOct. 28, 1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #6 Letter from ship captain about the disastrous fire at his Puerto Rico leather warehouse Heading(African American, 1850)AuthorHatch, DavisHeadlineYankee ship captain doubts Black slave arson in Puerto RicoDate PublishedAug. 20, 1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #7 Michigan timber merchant’s letter to his brother in New England about Black Walnut logging by ex-slaves in Canada Heading(African American, 1851)AuthorHadley, ClarkHeadlineEscaped slaves, Indians and the ‘real’ Uncle Tom in CanadaDate PublishedJune 8-15, 1851 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #8 Report of the Board of Managers of the Maryland State Colonization Society Heading(African American, 1852)AuthorLatrobe, John H.B. (President, Maryland Colonization Society)HeadlineRare report of Colonization Society despised by AbolitionistsDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #9 Letter to a pioneering young Mulatto inventor from a doomed Cuban revolutionary hero Heading(African American, 1866)AuthorGoicouria, General Domingo deHeadlineLetter to antebellum African American inventorDate PublishedMarch 27, 1866 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #10 Inventory listing 161 slaves from the Coffee farm Boa Esperanca in the municipality of Paty do Alferes in Rio de Janeiro. Heading(African American, 1882 - Slavery, Brazil)HeadlineList of slaves at Brazilian coffee farm 1882Date Published1882 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next