Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee: Museum Object and Cultural History
Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee: Date: 1859-1860. Issued by: Hill, Ware, & Chrisp, American, 1859 - 1860. Subject of: Byrd Hill, American, 1800 - 1872.
The object in the museum catalogue
A trade card with printed black type for the slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp. Text on the obverse reads, "GREAT / NEGRO MART, / No. 87, ADAMS STREET, / MEMPHIS, --- TENN. / The undersigned would announce to the community at large, that they will keep/constantly on hand a / GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF NEGROES / AT PRIVATE SALE AND AT AUCTION. / They will also receive on commission (to Board or for Sale) any Negroes consigned / to their care. / All sales warranted as represented. / HILL, WARE & CHRISP." On the back, a handwritten inscription in black ink reads "S Ward + Jones / Send me a vile of / fine Branday / Hill Ware + Chrisp." Below in the bottom left corner is the name "R. Griffith" handwritten in graphite.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1859-1860
- Issued by: Hill, Ware, & Chrisp, American, 1859 - 1860
- Subject of: Byrd Hill, American, 1800 - 1872
- Subject of: John W. Chrisp, American
- Subject of: John D. Ware, American, born ca. 1800
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Type: trade cards
- Medium: ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W: 2 7/8 × 4 in. (7.3 × 10.2 cm)
- Place printed: Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Commerce
- Topic: Domestic slave trade
- Topic: Slavery
- Object number: 2014.63.17
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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