TO BE SOLD, A Young healthy likely NEGRO WOMAN
Title
TO BE SOLD, A Young healthy likely NEGRO WOMAN
Description
A slaveholder around New Brunswick seeks to sell a young black woman, aged 20, together with her 14-month-old daughter. The slaveholder is not named in the ad, and the prospective buyers are asked to apply to the printers of the Brunswic Gazette newspaper for more information.
Date
1792-05-01
Spatial Coverage
Language
English
Source
Original newspaper issue preserved by Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Loose Newspaper Collection (Ac. 3193). Box 27, Folder 5.
Text (Transcript)
TO BE SOLD,
A Young healthy likely
NEGRO WOMAN,
OF about twenty years of age, with a female child fourteen months old, as she is a native of New-Jersey, and is very well calculated for doing the business of a kitchen, spinning or any thing of that nature, being brought up in the country; she is sold merely for want of employment, enquire of the Printer.
New-Brunswic, April 28, 1792. 92
A Young healthy likely
NEGRO WOMAN,
OF about twenty years of age, with a female child fourteen months old, as she is a native of New-Jersey, and is very well calculated for doing the business of a kitchen, spinning or any thing of that nature, being brought up in the country; she is sold merely for want of employment, enquire of the Printer.
New-Brunswic, April 28, 1792. 92
Publication
Place of publication
Page
3
Geolocation
Collection
Citation
“TO BE SOLD, A Young healthy likely NEGRO WOMAN,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed April 20, 2024, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/504.