10/37 One Boulmay, for example, advertised at New Orleans in 1819 that he would sell fifty tickets at twenty dollars each, the lucky drawer to receive his girl Amelia, thirteen years old.[21] [Footnote 19: Charleston, Md., _Telegraph_, Nov. in the New York Public Library, MSS. division, filed under "slavery."] [Footnote 21: _Louisiana Courier_ (New Orleans), Aug. 17, 1819.] The long distance trade, though open to any who would engage in it, appears to have been conducted mainly by firms plying it steadily. |