Rare 1864 Augusta GA Confederate Civil War newspaper w JEWISH SLAVE DEALER adve
Rare 1864 Augusta GEORGIA Confederate Civil War newspaper with 2 JEWISH SLAVE DEALER advertisements on the front page. SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL CONFEDERATE Civil War NEWSPAPER, the. (GA) dated in January, 1864. This original Confederate Civil War newspaper contains a front page display ad for a. This also contains a second front page ad by the same dealer: "BY SOLOMON COHEN / "Likely Young NEGR0ES for Sale. This is a rare single sheet Confederate Civil War newspaper title with news coverage of the Civil War, Augusta, GA ads and news, as well as national and international news in 1864, 160 years ago. The exact date in 1864 is selected at random from our inventory of this rare Confederate Civil War newspaper title. (August 15, 1802 - August 14, 1875) was a lawyer, prominent in Savannah, Georgia, where he was also postmaster, the state's first Jewish senator, a district attorney, a real-estate developer and banker. He established the first Jewish Sunday School in Georgia. At one point, he owned eight slaves and hired out an additional fifteen. Born in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1802, Solomon became a Savannah politician and Georgia's first Jewish state senator, serving also as district attorney and postmaster. As a highly successful lawyer, banker, real estate developer and all-around businessman, whose various enterprises included hiring out slaves, he turns up in kvelling histories of Confederate Jews, anti-Semitic tracts and everything in between. He appears Zelig-like in the lives of much more famous people.
His wife, Miriam, was the niece of Philadelphia philanthropist and Jewish-Sunday-school founder Rebecca Gratz, famous too for her beauty and probably the best-known Jewish woman of the 19th century. Some Jews owned slaves before and during the Civil War. In Savannah, they did so proportionately to their wealth, though Solomon was an unusually large urban slaveholder, with the 15 slaves he hired out in addition to the 8 who worked in his home.
Enslaved people could be contracted out, for short or long terms, to private or public employers, and enslaved artisans such as carpenters or coopers might even be allowed to live on their own and keep a small portion of their earnings. This Confederate Civil War newspaper is complete as a single sheet issue. The single sheet newspaper format was used by many Southern newspapers due to the scarcity of paper in the South during the Civil War. This lack of paper was a result of the South being cut off from their normal paper supplies, previously obtained from the Northern paper mills.Most Confederate Civil War newspapers lack bold single column headlines as were common in Northern newspapers; however, the defiant prose found in Southern newspapers more than makes up for the lack of headlines! Confederate Civil War newspapers are much scarcer, and much more in demand with collectors than Northern newspapers. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it.
Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN! Goldman is a consultant to the Freedom Forum Newseum and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
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