- Received by
- Saunders, Giles, American, 1810 - 1895
- Written by
- Fox, Samuel M., American, 1806 - 1864
- Date
- April 17, 1848
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 9 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (25.1 × 40 cm)
- Description
- 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.
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcription Available
- Place used
- Tates Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
- Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Documents and Published Materials
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Type
- money
- letters (correspondence)
- Topic
- American South
- Business
- Commerce
- Correspondence
- Domestic slave trade
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.174.3.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
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