Autograph letter, signed,

by rising Confederate politician, arranging to sell an enslaved man without his knowledge. by Thomas D. McDowell

$2,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Elizabethtown, North Carolina , 9 November 1846. 1 p., 10” x 8”, with address panel and no postal markings on verso. CONDITION: Very good, with folds and moderate foxing. This letter by slaveowner and future North Carolina legislator Thomas David Smith McDowell 1823–1898 charges its recipients to sell “my man Harry” as soon as Harry arrives, via raft, in Wilmington:

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