[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Notice...Three Likely Negroes. St. Louis, MO: N.p., 18 September 1846.
Visible 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. letterpress broadside (creasing, ink bleed from verso); matted and framed to 15 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by administrator Franklin T. Utz.  A broadside advertising the court-ordered auction of "three likely negroes...a woman named Ellen, aged 22 years, and her two children, and a little girl named Lucy Ann, aged two years; the other a girl about one year old." The notice stipulates that "all three of the negroes will be sold together." The enslaved individuals were from the estate of Nathaniel K. Sullivan, deceased.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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