1995 OLD SLAVE MART Charleston SC 8pp Appraisal W/ Carroll Greene ' S Pen Notes
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Offered here is a vintage 1995 Description and Appraisal of the Collection of Judith Wragg Chase and the Old Slave Mart Museum collection of Southern and African-American antiquities. This is noted African-American art historian and curator Carroll Greene's copy with his handwritten notations and marginalia about the collection.
This appraisal itself was by by Allen Stokes, then Librarian and Director of the South Caroliniana Library.
Shows wear at extremities, but is overall bri...ght and legible.
The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum slave auction gallery.Constructed in 1859, the building is believed to be the last extant slave auction facility in South Carolina. In 1975, the Old Slave Mart was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its role in Charleston's African-American history. Today, the building houses the Old Slave Mart Museum.
Dr. Walter O. Evans, one of the nation's foremost collectors of African-American art, said that Carroll Greene "was extremely important. He was a giant in the field, a leading proponent of African-American art long before it was a fashionable thing to do. He was someone whose opinion I deeply respected.".
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This appraisal itself was by by Allen Stokes, then Librarian and Director of the South Caroliniana Library.
Shows wear at extremities, but is overall bri...ght and legible.
The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum slave auction gallery.Constructed in 1859, the building is believed to be the last extant slave auction facility in South Carolina. In 1975, the Old Slave Mart was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its role in Charleston's African-American history. Today, the building houses the Old Slave Mart Museum.
Dr. Walter O. Evans, one of the nation's foremost collectors of African-American art, said that Carroll Greene "was extremely important. He was a giant in the field, a leading proponent of African-American art long before it was a fashionable thing to do. He was someone whose opinion I deeply respected.".
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