Chancery Sale Poster

This poster announces the auction of slave children ranging in age from 16 and younger, as decreed by the Chancery Court in a lawsuit in Springfield, Tennessee. The firm of Miles & Draughon was to "sell to the highest bidder three likely young girls, from 12 to 14 years of age; one likely young boy about 16 years old; one stout likely man about 25 years old; and three likely young boys." The poster is dated December 8, 1858, just two years and 12 days before South Carolina seceded from the Union, sparking the Civil War.