Trade card for the slave dealers Blount & Dawson in Savannah, Georgia: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A letterpress printed trade card for the slave dealers Blount and Dawson, printd in black ink on off-white paper stock. Large text in various decorative fonts reads: [A CARD. / BLOUNT & DAWSON, / GENERAL BROKERS / For the Purchase and Sale of Negroes and Other / Property. / SAVANNAH, GEORGIA]. In smaller text, [Having taken the Office and New Jail completed by Wm. Wright, Esq., we are / able to afford secure and good accommodations for all negroes left with us for Sale / or Safe-Keeping would respectfully solicit a share of public patronage.]. At bottom left is [E.M. BLOUNT.] and at bottom right is [W.C. Dawson]. Along the bottom is [Having leased the above gentlemen my office and jail, would take pleasure in / recommending them to my patrons and the public generally. / WM. WRIGHT.].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1860
• Distributed by: Blount & Dawson, American
• Subject of: Edmond M. Blount, American, born 1811
• Subject of: William C. Dawson, American, born 1827
• Type: trade cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (6.4 x 8.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Commerce
• Topic: Domestic slave trade
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: U.S. History, 1815-1861
• Topic: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
• Object number: 2009.9.8
• 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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