[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. 12 Likely Negroes for Sale.  Barren County, KY: N.p., 27 April 1863.  
10 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. letterpress broadside (minor offsetting, a few ink spots); framed to 15 1/8 x 19 1/4 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by C.L. Hill.  A broadside advertising the sale of "Twelve Negroes, named and aged, viz: Negro man, Sam, 66 years; Adam, 27 years; woman, Rachel, 50 years; Helen, 40 years; Ann, 27 years; Fanny, 22 years; Ophelia, 3 years; Sally, 7 years; Manda, 7 years; Haden, 3 years; and Wesley 1 year" who are being sold in a case against "Jesse Smith and others." In addition to these 12 named individuals the sale included "one Negro boy, Sam, aged about twelve years" sold in the case of H.P. Curd and others against W.B. Smith.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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