Unnamed Mississippi Blacksmith - MS-BLA14
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Title
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Unnamed Mississippi Blacksmith - MS-BLA14
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Identifier
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MS-BLA14
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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"Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849", Woodville Republican
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Date
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December 4, 1830
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Trade
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Blacksmith
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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James Girault
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Home
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Girault's Plantation, Dunbar's Creek
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events
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4. To be sold by James Girault
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Notes
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In "Garrick to McCaleb" Chapter in Ancestry.com collection, page 79.
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Transcription
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Girault advertised his plantation for sale. It was on Dunbar's Creek, the head-waters of Bayou Sara, in Wilkinson County; 12 miles from Fort Adams; 9 miles from Woodville; 4 miles from Pinckneyvill. The property was a Span-ish grant of 800 arpans and included an overseer's house, Negro quarters, 42 Negroes— "old and young, a good blacksmith and a good carpenter."
