Slave Auction Ad

ID: 6211 ~ Source: WikiCommons ~ Creator: Unknown author
~ Date: 1769

This file appears in: Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

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Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction, in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1769.

This file appears in: Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

By Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

On January 21, 1783, Étienne de Boré, an enslaver and owner of the Boré Plantation located within today’s Audubon Park, visited a public slave auction in order to sell two enslaved boys. Alexandro…