Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Manuscript Document Signed, “Tho. N. Gadsden” 2pp. folio, March 3, 1838, Charleston, South Carolina, being a mortgage bond between Charles Crouch and Thomas Gadsden. Fine condition. From Weld’s “Slavery As It Is”, page 174, “Under his hammer, men, women and children go off by thousands; its stroke probably sunders, daily, husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, perhaps to see each other’s faces no more. Now, who supply the auction table of this Thomas Gadsden, Esq., with its loads of human merchandise? These same “detested soul-drivers,”…prowl through the country, buy, catch, and fetter them, and drive their chained coffles to his stand, where Thomas Gadsden, Esq., knocks them off to the highest bidder, to Ex-Gov. Butler, perhaps, or to Ex-Gov. Wayne, or to Hon. Robert Barnwell Rhett,” (M. C.,) “or (it may be) to his own Reverend brother, Dr. Gadsden..”
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