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Negroes for Sale: Broadside advertising sale of shipment of slaves

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

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Negroes for Sale: Broadside advertising sale of shipment of slaves
Collection

Slavery

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Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1784-05-19 (Approximate)
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Slavery
Topics
Slavery -- United States
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Slave trade -- United States
Genres
Advertisements
Broadsides
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16104370
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2fb447a0-c6f6-012f-81c3-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1784: Issued
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2023: Found by you!
  • 2024

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Negroes for Sale" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1784-05-19. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b024b820-2adf-8da9-e040-e00a18063596

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Negroes for Sale" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 30, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b024b820-2adf-8da9-e040-e00a18063596

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1784-05-19). Negroes for Sale Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b024b820-2adf-8da9-e040-e00a18063596

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b024b820-2adf-8da9-e040-e00a18063596 | title= (text) Negroes for Sale, (1784-05-19) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 30, 2023 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Negroes for Sale