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Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel M. Fox concerning the slave trade, April 17, 1848. Creator: Samuel M. Fox.

Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel M. Fox concerning the slave trade, April 17, 1848. Creator: Samuel M. Fox.

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This letter was written in Madison County, Kentucky, on April 17, 1848, by Samuel M. Fox to Giles Saunders in Richmond, Virginia. Fox writes of his success in selling several enslaved people and about concerns of the prices for enslaved people around Lexington, Kentucky, due to the instability of the market price for cotton. The paper is folded in half with the right side having the correspondence and the left side the address. A postmark dated April 18 from Lexington, Kentucky, is stamped in blue ink over the address.

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  1. Samuel M. Fox, attributed to: {American}: Slave traderSearch Wikipedia for Samuel M. Fox
People Related
  1. Giles Saunders: American: Slave-ownerSearch Wikipedia for Giles Saunders
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  1. Letters (correspondence)
  2. Money
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  1. Heritage art
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Trade & Industry Communications

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 6601x4195
File Size : 81,127kb

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  1. 2014.174.3.1
  1. NMAAHC-2014_174_3_1_1001
  1. 0990005240
  1. 2-832-617
  1. 2014.174.3.1
  1. 2832617

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