Manuscript notice regarding the ownership of three escaped and captured slaves.

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$1,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Granville, Co., North Carolina, 18 April 1821. Manuscript notice, 7.5” x 9”, 1 p. CONDITION: Very good, dampstain along lower margin. An unusual notice penned by a Virginia slave owner announcing his claim over three slaves—named and likely a family—evidently held by a slave catcher/thief who was refusing to release

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