Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel M. Fox concerning the slave trade

Source catalog description

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This letter was written in Madison County, Kentucky, on April 17, 1848, by Samuel M. Fox to Giles Saunders in Richmond, Virginia. Fox writes of his success in selling several enslaved people and about concerns of the prices for enslaved people around Lexington, Kentucky, due to the instability of the market price for cotton. The paper is folded in half with the right side having the correspondence and the left side the address. A postmark dated April 18 from Lexington, Kentucky, is stamped in blue ink over the address.

Catalog date

April 17, 1848

Recorded places

Tates Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America; Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; American South; Business; Commerce; Correspondence; Domestic slave trade; Slavery

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