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Unnamed Mississippi Currier - MS-CUR1

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Currier - MS-CUR1
Identifier: MS-CUR1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: "Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849"
Date: December 17, 1831
Trade: Currier
Enslaver: James Leech
Events: 4. To be sold by James Leech
Home: Leech's Plantation
Home Location: Mississippi
Notes: In "McCarstle to Saunders" Chapter, page 167; also a tanner
Transcription: FOR SALE OR RENT My plantation containing 80 acres together with my tanning establishment, lying 2 miles west of Woodville with a never failing spring of the best water in this part of the country— also 2 negro men, one a Tanner and Currier, the other a field hand. For terms enquire of the subscriber on the premises. JAMES LEECH December 17, 1831 50
gender: Male