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Fairchild estate appraisal document

“At An Appraisement Held at the House of Mrs. Fairchilds . . .”
Pen and ink on paper
July 5, 1828

Reproduced in Freedom Over Me (New York: Atheneum, 2016)


Credit: Ashley Bryan Archive, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

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