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Auction archive: Lot number 1

Planning a large slave sale in antebellum South Carolina

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$300
Auction archive: Lot number 1

Planning a large slave sale in antebellum South Carolina

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$300
Beschreibung:

Autograph Letter Signed. 2 pp. To G. B. Browne “…As regards the price of the negroes Father thinks they ought to bring at least 2000 – when they are sold, place the amt to Fathers credit in the RR Bank and send statement of sale, also a blank Power of Attorney, to enable Mr. H to transfer the stock…Father continues to improve…Father does not trust Mr. Heyward as to price of negroes but only thinks they ought to bring the price stated…. 26 year-old George Calder’s father William, an immigrant from Scotland, was a director of the Bank of South Carolina; he may also have owned a hotel in Charleston. One Henry Calder, possibly the grandfather, died in 1820, leaving an estate that included 167 slaves. It’s likely that the estate was much smaller by 1859, when William was seriously ill and probably thinking of what would become of his wealth after his death. (If census records are correct, ironicaly, both father and son died the following year, as Secession loomed) The Mr. Heyward, whose estimate of slave value the Calders mistrusted, was probably a scion of the largest slave-owning family in South Carolina – and the richest in the entire antebellum South.

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
16 Dec 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Autograph Letter Signed. 2 pp. To G. B. Browne “…As regards the price of the negroes Father thinks they ought to bring at least 2000 – when they are sold, place the amt to Fathers credit in the RR Bank and send statement of sale, also a blank Power of Attorney, to enable Mr. H to transfer the stock…Father continues to improve…Father does not trust Mr. Heyward as to price of negroes but only thinks they ought to bring the price stated…. 26 year-old George Calder’s father William, an immigrant from Scotland, was a director of the Bank of South Carolina; he may also have owned a hotel in Charleston. One Henry Calder, possibly the grandfather, died in 1820, leaving an estate that included 167 slaves. It’s likely that the estate was much smaller by 1859, when William was seriously ill and probably thinking of what would become of his wealth after his death. (If census records are correct, ironicaly, both father and son died the following year, as Secession loomed) The Mr. Heyward, whose estimate of slave value the Calders mistrusted, was probably a scion of the largest slave-owning family in South Carolina – and the richest in the entire antebellum South.

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
16 Dec 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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