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Photographer: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Caption: Marker detail: Advertisement for the sale of captured Africans
Additional Description: To be sold on board the ship Bance Island, on Tuesday the 6th of May next, at Ashley Ferry, a choice cargo of about 250 fine healthy negroes just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast. The utmost care has already been taken, and shall be continued, to keep them free from the least danger of being infected with the smallpox, no boat having been on board, and all other communication with people from Charles-Town prevented.
Austin, Laurens, & Appleby.
N.B. Full one-half of the above Negroes have had the smallpox in their own country.
Submitted: December 1, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p455887
File Size: 2.193 Megabytes

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