"Negro Boy" to be sold by Samuel Stanhope Smith

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"Negro Boy" to be sold by Samuel Stanhope Smith

November 20, 1780 Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)

Newspaper advertisement for a slave sale by Professor Samuel Stanhope Smith

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Newspaper New Jersey Gazette Place of Publication Trenton, NJ Ad Author(s) S.S. Smith Ad Subject(s) Negro Boy Ad Type Sale Price Inquire of S.S. Smith

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