🥇 BANNER Find of a lifetime! Charleston Slave Tag

[newnan76]

Haven't been on in a while but figured this was worthy of a post! Got off work with the intention of digging some bottles but that didn't work out so I went to plan B. Went by a site I've found some decent relics and coins at. Wasn't going to detect this spot again and almost wrote it off but they had scraped a lil more dirt so decided to go ahead and beep a lil and see what comes up. Well not even 10 minutes in and my Deus rang a sweet sound. Dug about 1 inch and out popped this square piece of metal and didn't think much of it until I rubbed a lil dirt off and saw a bit of "Charleston" and "Servant" and "1818" at this point I was just in shock, which quickly turned to "OMG" I can't believe what I just found!!!!! An 1818 Charleston Servant Slave Tag. Life doesn't get much better

 

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[austin]

and I understand that they are worth big money to a collector. Congratulations...

 

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[Johncoho]

Banner for me too.

 

[trapperart]

Great find congrats banner vote from me

 

[cw0909]

BANNER, nice, and i cant find it but somewhere on Tnet is
a discript about a tag that was cleaned
some info for insurance rate, might want to check around this was 2013
http://www.wartimecollectables.com/charleston-slave-tag.html

 

[Garrett424]

WOW. That's one helluva great find.
It really makes you think too. Imagine being tagged like a dog or a horse.

 

[Gridwalker306]

Congrats on digging such an important piece of American history, that's an amazing find

 

[Tom Bigbee]

Excellent find and I wouldn't be in any hurry to clean it.

 

[Calabash Digger]

Killer find! my banner vote is in.

 

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[CRUSADER]

That's one sweet find go gentle on any attempt at cleaning....it's an important part of US history which deserves to be treated properly.

Regards + HH

Bill

Agreed, it will clean up good. Although I've never had anything professionally cleaned, this is one that I would advise you consider.

GREAT FIND!

 

[david680]

Congrats on making it up top!

 

[scotter1]

as far as being a sad time in in the age of man you must be in a closet.slavery is still very much alive and thriving today.wake up and get over yourself.no one brought slavery to america but the black man.he was the first to start slavery here,get over it.

 

[Reelsnrods]

Great find! The history with those pieces give me chills to think about.

 

[billn1956]

as far as being a sad time in in the age of man you must be in a closet.slavery is still very much alive and thriving today.wake up and get over yourself.no one brought slavery to america but the black man.he was the first to start slavery here,get over it.

Its nice to see that I am not alone in reading history and learning the back story's in it.

 

[parsonwalker]

Found in Charleston. Moved up here last year haven't changed my profile yet.

Man, Oh man. That IS an early one, and just spectacular. Outstanding preservation of an incredible piece of history. Yeah, it represents a time of tragedy, but in that time, it was the status quo. No less devastating, but to preserve that now? Ultra cool.

 

[newnan76]

Thanks everyone for the banner votes and kind words. Got some of the dirt off very carefully.Still some crusty stuff on it but not going to try and get that off.

 

[jewelerguy]

Holy smokes, what an awesome piece of history. congrats!

 

[villagenut]

as far as being a sad time in in the age of man you must be in a closet.slavery is still very much alive and thriving today.wake up and get over yourself.no one brought slavery to america but the black man.he was the first to start slavery here,get over it.

I suppose it would have pleased some of you better if it had been worded "the age of the Americas" but truth is slavery has been a terrible ingredient of man since the beginning as least as far back as the Jews enslavement to Egypt, the Spanish explorers towards the Natives here in America and yes the list could go on and on and does exist even today in many forms. Without pointing fingers at Egyptians,Spaniards,Plantation owners or even the "black man"you mention, it is a sad idea that ANY person at all has had to be owned by another human whether you were one who was hired out wearing a tag for Identification or whether you are a child working in a sweat shop for pennies. The problem with this whole idea of who started it all, really amounts to skating around the issue,thinking that it was not a travesty at all but just a finger pointing session that ignores responsibility whether you are white,black or whatever color your skin is.I am sure that all of our ancestors at one time may have had the ideology that slavery was just a fact of life and acceptable. I would hope that for most of us, we can begin to see the need to not tolerate such views...and I am not a black guy and you probably are not either...thus your viewpoint.

 

[romeo-1]

Whoa...bringing the conversation back on target...that is the penultimate relic find! Congrats for saving a very rare piece of American history!

 

[cw0909]

yours looks like it is a Lafar

some history
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