![39 LASHES: THE SENTENCE FOR A CONVICTED SLAVE IN LONG ISLAND IN 1811]. "The People vs. Gabe, a...](/pictures/thumb/3711.JPG?v=1648946040)
[39 LASHES: THE SENTENCE FOR A CONVICTED SLAVE IN LONG ISLAND IN 1811]. "The People vs. Gabe, a Slave of Nicholas Ledham: On Trial for Larceny" (in: Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas the 4th of June 1811 -- "At Account of General Sessions of the Peace held at the Court House in North Hempstead in and for the County of Queens")
New Hempstead, Long Island, NY: 1811. Large folio (337 x 200 mm), stitched, folded once vertically and twice horizontally, presumably extracted from a larger volume (two leaves excised, both likely blank). 10 pp. on paper clearly watermarked "1808" / Britannia (not in Gravell-Miller), modern pagination in pencil. Altogether handwritten 9..... More