Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Mailer, 9” x 11,” “United States Ex-Slave Owners Registration Bureau”, Washington, DC., one color, type set, former folds, VG. The bureau claims to be acting in the interest of slave holders whose slaves were freed without compensation. In part, “Thirty years ago, (Jan’y 1st, 1863) the proclamation of emancipation was issued. By this act more than $800,000,000 worth of legitimate property was swept out of the hands of its owners in the Southern States. ...President Lincoln never favored interfering with slavery where it existed, nor of freeing the slaves without compensation to the owners ... History shows that no civilized nation has ever emancipated her slaves and failed to compensate their owners. ...We need not discourse on the absolute necessity of such a record (in the event that public opinion should recognize the justice of this claim...” ...plus, Single-sided form prepared by the United States Ex-Slave Owners Registration Bureau for use as an affidavit, where former slave owners could attest to the number of slaves owned before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, in pursuit of possible future compensation for monetary or property losses. Only in the District of Columbia, which fell under direct Federal auspices, was compensated emancipation enacted. On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the government paying owners an average of about $300 for each.
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