Record Data
Source citation
"Selling a Man at Auction," Charleston (SC) Mercury, May 2, 1857, p. 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Charleston (SC) Mercury
Newspaper: Headline
Selling a Man at Auction
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Sayo Ayodele
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
SELLING A MAN AT AUCTION IN ILLINOIS. - The Sheriff of St. Clair county advertises a negro man for sale at public auction, he being guilty of the "high misdemeanor" of having come into the State of Illinois and remaining there for ten days, for which offence he was fined $50, as provided by the Black Law of 1853, and in default paying which fine, the Sheriff of the county in which he was found is directed to sell him to anybody willing to pay the $50.