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Slavery in Revolutionary Era Boston Newspaper Sale Notice for an Enslaved Child 1771

1771Best.-Nr. 143781771. The Almanack 1771 contains an advertisement offering a fourteen-year-old enslaved Black boy for sale in Boston documenting the commercial trafficking of enslaved children in colonial Massachusetts only five years before the Declaration of Independence. The notice states: "To be sold for want of employment a likely Negro Boy that won't drink rum he is about 14 years old." Its language reduces the unnamed child to age perceived suitability and drinking habits before offering him for sale preserving direct evidence of how slavery entered the ordinary commercial language and newspaper economy of eighteenth-century Boston. A second advertisement relating to slavery appears in the same issue. The Almanack. Boston 1771. Folio newspaper approximately 15 x 10 inches. The sale notice was printed among the newspaper's advertisements rather than as a report or editorial discussion of slavery placing the transaction within the periodical's routine marketplace of property labor and services. Particularly revealing is the seller's stated reason "for want of employment" which explicitly connects the proposed sale of the fourteen-year-old boy to the enslaver's assessment of his economic utility. Slavery remained legal in Massachusetts in 1771 even as the political disputes that would culminate in the American Revolution intensified in Boston. The advertisement predates the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution and the early 1780s freedom suits associated with the effective end of slavery in the Commonwealth. As a Boston notice offering an enslaved child for sale it provides specific evidence that human bondage and its newspaper marketplace formed part of New England life during the generation that articulated revolutionary claims concerning liberty. Overall foxing scattered soiling and several small edge tears; otherwise very good condition. unknown

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Charles SUMNER; Slavery & AbolitionABAA

Massachusetts Senator and Abolitionist Charles Sumner Argues for and End to The Fugitive Slave Bill A Full Decade Before It Was Repealed

1854Best.-Nr. 176351854. Abolition African Americana SUMNER Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee Butler of South Carolina And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States June 26 and 28 1854. Washington D.C.: Buell & Blanchard Printers 1854. At the time that this description is being written just three copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. The Memorial referred to in the title was a request by 2900 undersigners chiefly men of Boston Mass. to repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. What follows is a transcription of Massachusetts Senator and famous abolitionist Charles Sumner's speeches in the ensuing debate: "Mr Jones. asks 'Can anyone suppose that if the Fugitive Slave Act be repealed this Union can exist' To which I reply at once that if the Union in any way be dependent on an Act-- I cannot call it a law-- so revolting in every regard as to that which he refers then it ought not to exist." Sumner goes on to argue amongst other things that the Fugitive Slave Act is parallel to the hated Stamp Act that sparked the Revolutionary War as well as to make spirited rebukes against the pro-slavery Senators Butler Mason and Jones: "The veteran Senator from Virginia Mr. Mason complained that I had characterized one of his "constituents" a person who went all the way from Virginia to Boston in pursuit of a slave as a Slave-Hunter. Sire I choose to call things by their right names. White I call white and black I call black. And where a person degrades himself to the work of chasing a fellow man who under the guidance of the north star has saught a freeman's home far away from the cofle and the chain that person whomsoever he may be I call a Slave-Hunter." Eight sheets folded to make one sixteen-page signature which is stitched along the left edge. Foxing throguhout pages chipped along margins. Dampstaining along two page edges. Delicate but in good condition. Charles Sumner January 6 1811 - March 11 1874 was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. During the war he was a leader of the Radical Republican faction that criticized President Lincoln for being too moderate on the South. Sumner specialized in foreign affairs and worked closely with Lincoln to ensure the British and the French refrained from intervening on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. As the chief Radical leader in the Senate during Reconstruction Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen on the grounds that "consent of the governed" was a basic principle of American republicanism and to block ex-Confederates from power so they would not reverse the gains made from the Union's victory in the Civil War. unknown books