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Newspaper ad for the sale of a woman and children

Date:
1763
Item Type:
manuscript
Newspaper ad for the sale of a woman and children
Boston News-Letter (published as THE Massachusetts GAZETTE. And BOSTON NEWS-LETTER.) (Boston, Massachusetts) June 9, 1763

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Advertisements for the sale of enslaved, men, women, and children were common in New England newspapers before the American Revolution. This ad appeared on page 4 of the Boston News-Letter on June 9, 1763. Readers were instructed to inquire at the printers if they were interested in purchasing a young mother and her children, with the option of buying a three-year-old child "with or without" his mother, and a younger child "to be given away."

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