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[ALABAMA - ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Mobile Gazette and Commercial Advertiser. Vol. III, No. 58. Mobile, AL: Dade & Dameron, 12 April 1820.
Estimate: $400-$600
Passed
Live Auction
American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Location
Cincinnati
Description
[ALABAMA - ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. Mobile Gazette and Commercial Advertiser. Vol. III, No. 58. Mobile, AL: Dade & Dameron, 12 April 1820.
4pp., folio, 12 x 18 in. (fully separated at central fold, chipping, creasing, short tears, and some loss at edges, toning and occasional spotting). The issue contains at least two advertisements for self-emancipated freedom seekers as well as advertisements promoting the sale of enslaved individuals. It also includes a page 2 headline and news of Maine becoming a new state in the Union in the compromise of 1820.
RARE: Very early newspaper published in Alabama, which had just achieved statehood in December 1819.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition
Freeman's I Hindman strives to describe historic materials in a manner that is respectful to all communities, providing descriptive contexts for objects where possible. The nature of historical ephemera is such that some material may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices at Freeman's I Hindman.