Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, November 24, 1860, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, a horizontal full -page engraving, “Memories of the Unoin - Execution of Nathan Hale on The Site of East Broadway, Corner of Market Street, New York, September 21, 1776.” Just fascinating in that this engraving illustrates a Black Man holding the hanging rope. The Black hangman is Bill Richmond (1763-1829), an African American boxer born a slave in Cuckold's Town (now Richmondtown), Staten Island, New York. His nickname was 'The Black Terror'. Richmond was the servant of Lord Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, during the American Revolutionary War, who took him to England in 1777. On September 22, 1776, Richmond was the hangman who executed Nathan Hale.
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