Charleston Mercury, April 6, 1855: Newspaper featuring advertisement for D.J. & G.J. Levy's Southern Clothing Emporium and Marx Cohen's sale of enslaved people


This newspaper clipping from the Charleston Mercury, published April 6, 1855, in Charleston, South Carolina, features a prominent advertisement for D.J. & G.J. Levy's Southern Clothing Emporium and a notice of Marx Cohen's sale of thirty enslaved people, along with his plantation and brickyard. The Levy advertisement includes a lithographic illustration of their store at 288 King Street.


Associated People/Businesses

  • Cohen, Marx
  • Charleston Mercury
  • LEVY, D.J. / LEVY, G.J./ COHEN, MARX (1808.1881) / HART, SAMUEL SR.(1805.1896)

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Arc.MS.56, Volume C, Page 12