What: Printed & Manuscript African AmericanaWhere: Swann Galleries, 104 E 25th St #6, New York, NY 10010, USAWhen: March 29, 01.30 pmPublic Viewing: March 24, 12 pm -5 pm; March 26, 10 am – 6 pm; March 27, 10 am – 6 pm; March 28, 10 am – 6 pm; March 29, 10 am -12 pmTop lots of the sale:- Autograph Letter Signed as "your brother Malcolm X" to 'My Dear Most Humble Brother Raymond." 6 pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, on three sheets. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000- Letters concerning Gabriel Johnson, an enslaved man at Mount Vernon--including his letter from Bruin's Slave Jail. 4 letters by various authors, all to or from John Augustine Washington, each 1 to 3 pages in length, two with integral address panels and postal markings. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000- Moses Walker. Letter from an enslaved Georgia man to his mother at another plantation. Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages on one sheet, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000- Papers of an early Pennsylvania abolitionist, including the landmark kidnapping case of John Davis. Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000- Frederick Douglass. George Kendall Warren; photographer. Signed cabinet card of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 5 3/4 x 4 inches, on original mount with photographer's gilt stamps on both sides, and signed "Fred'k Douglass" in ink in lower margin; tack holes in mount corners, a touch of dampstaining on lower edge. Boston, circa 1879. Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000- "No White Man Need Apply where the Colored Have a Majority" Frederick Douglass. Letters from Douglass to an old friend concerning race relations, Haiti, and more. 6 letters from Douglass to Ebenezer Bassett of New Haven, CT, including an Autograph Letter Signed on Cedar Hill letterhead, a Letter Signed. Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000- Martin Luther King Jr. Honor King: End Racism. Black and white placard, 21 1/2 x 14 inches; 5 tack holes in margins, a few short wrinkles, small bit of dampstaining on lower edge, but generally well preserved with sharp edges. Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000- A pair of slippers said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley for cabinet member Gideon Welles at the time of Lincoln's second inauguration. Pair of crocheted men's silk yarn boudoir slippers in a red, white and blue patriotic pattern sewn to leather soles, the soles being 10 1/4 inches long and 3 inches wide; light fading and soiling, half-inch areas of wear at the back of each slipper, but generally well-preserved. [Washington, March 1865]. Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000- Frederick Douglass. The North Star, volume I, issue 27. 4 pages, 25 x 18 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; minor damp staining. Rochester, NY, 30 June 1848. Estimate $8,000 - 12,000For details, visit: https://www.swanngalleries.com/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.
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