Old Slave Block

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Stock #: 136140
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Fredericksburg
State: Virginia (VA)
County: Fredericksburg (city)
Publisher: R.A. Kishpaugh
Postmark: 1962 Dec-05
PM City: Fredericsburg
PM State: Va
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
In the days before the Civil War it was used for the sale and annual hire of slaves. Albert Crutchfield, show in picture, was sold from the block about 1859, at which time he was a boy about 15 years old.

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