Broadside for sheriff's auction of an enslaved woman and four children

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A one-side single-sheet broadside from Milledgeville, Georgia, advertising sheriff auctions for enslaved persons, a horse, and plots of land. Printed in black ink, the top of the broadside reads [RECORDER, / EXTRA.] in large decorative font between double lines. This is followed by [MILLEDGEVILLE, / Tuesday, April 30, 1839]. The first section of text starts with [ELBERT SHERIFF SALES.] and continues with [Will be sold at the Court-house door in Elbert county, within the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in June next, the following property, to wit: / Five negroes, viz: Tom, a boy 12 years old; Louise, a woman, and her three children, one by the name of Nancy, one named Caroline, and a boy by the name of Eli: all levied on as the property of Zimri W. Tate, to satisfy two fi fas from the Superior Court of Elbert county, one in favor of Francis H. Cone, vs.

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