2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
A complete and authentic issue of the Daily Picayune, New Orleans, April 3, 1854, 4pp., disbound, VG. On the back page we are presented with an extraordinary illustrated runaway slave advertisement, in full; "TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD - Ran away slave boy William, nearly white, about 25 years old, blue eyes, light hair, bad teeth, slender build and straight, about five feet nine inches high, a good house servant. Hotels and steamship captains are cautioned against employing or harboring said boy. The above reward will be paid on his delivery at 157 Common Street. The above boy was in the chain gang last year. Police be on the watch."
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