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Unrecorded Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK34

Title: Unrecorded Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK34
Identifier: MS-COOK34
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: August 21, 1838
Trade: Cook
Enslaver: Sold by Jacob Soria & Co.
Events: 4. To be sold by Jacob Soria & Co. for unnamed enslaver
Home Location: Mississippi
Notes: Pastry Cook
Transcription: NEGROES AT AUCTION. WILL be sold this day, at 11 o'clock, A.M. at the auction room, corner of Main and Pearl streets, a likely Mulatto Woman, aged about 22 years, and her child, a Boy three years old. The woman is a first rate house servant, washer, ironer and seamstress. She has been accustomed to take charge of children, and raised in a respectable family. Also, a little Mulatto Girl, aged about 18 years, a first rate cook washer, and ironer—excellent pastry cook, accustomed to general house work, raised by a respectable family. Said slaves come highly recommended, as to charac-ter and qualifications, as house servants. Those wishing to purchase will do well to attend the sale. Also—at 12 o'clock, a splendid Barouche for two horses, on a credit. JACOB SORIA & Co. Auctioneers. August 21.
gender: Female