To be sold on board the ship Bance-Island . . . a choice cargo of about 250 fine healthy Negroes.
This advertisement was for the sale of enslaved Africans published in the South Carolina Gazette and paid for by a prominent firm for importing enslaved Africans to Charleston. The advertisement announces the forthcoming sale of Africans from the Upper Guinea Coast region, and stresses they are free of smallpox, a common disease on the Atlantic crossing. The Library of Congress assigns a possible date from the 1780s, but the advertisement was, in fact, published on April 26, 1760. See Philip Hamer, ed., The Papers of Henry Laurens (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1972), vol. 3, pp. 35-36.
Image Title
To be sold on board the ship Bance-Island . . . a choice cargo of about 250 fine healthy Negroes.
RegID
SI-OB-737
Date
1760
Title
To be sold on board the ship Bance-Island . . . a choice cargo of about 250 fine healthy Negroes.
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-10293.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Jack Rakove; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
28-Mar-17
Identifier
H021