As the advantages of advertiſing came to be underſtood, the deſcriptions of ſlave property became more frequent and explicit. Negro men, women, and children were mixed up in the ſales with wearing apparel, Gold Watches, and other Goods[1]—"very good Barbados Rum” is offered with "a young negro that has had the Small Pox"[2]—and competitors offer "Likely negro men and women juſt arrived"[3]—"negro men new and negro boys who have been in the country ſome time,"[4] and alſo "juſt arrived, a choice parcel of negro boys and girls."[5] "A likely negro man born in the country, and bred a Farmer, fit for any ſervice,"[6] "a negro woman about 22 years old, with a boy about 5 months,"[7] &c., a "likely negro woman about 19 years and a child of about ſix months of age to be ſold together or apart,"[8] and "a likely negro man, taken by execution, and to be ſold by publick auction at the Royal Exchange Tavern in King Street, at ſix o'clock this afternoon,"[9] muſt conclude theſe extracts.
At this point it may be neceſſary to interpoſe a caution with reference to the judgment which muſt be pronounced againſt the policy which has been illuſtrated
- ↑ Boſton News Letter, No. 1402.
- ↑ N E. Journal, No. 200.
- ↑ N, E. Journal, No. 217.
- ↑ N. E. Journal, No. 230.
- ↑ Boſton News Letter, No. 1438, Auguſt 12th to 19th, 1731.
- ↑ This man was offered for ſale by the Widow and Adminiſtratrix to the Eſtate of Thomas Amory in 1731. Boſton News Letter, No. 1413.
- ↑ Boſton News Letter, No. 1487, July 20th to July 27th, 1732.
- ↑ N. E. Weekly Journal, No. 267, May 1ſt, 1732.
- ↑ The Boſton Gazette and Casey, Journal, No. 594, Auguſt 18, 1766. This advertiſement is a concluſive anſwer to the claim that "no evidence is found of ſuch taking in execution in Maſſachuſetts." Dane's Abridgment, ii., 314.
