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Title
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Mingo - MS-FIRE1
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Identifier
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MS-FIRE1
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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"
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Date
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November 10, 1838
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Trade
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Fireman
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gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Thomas Bullare
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Home
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Levant steamer
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events
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1. Self-emancipated from Thomas Bullare
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Notes
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In "Boon to Cage", page 29
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Transcription
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The slave MINGO was com-mitted to the Wilkinson County jail November 3rd; age 45-50; 5 feet 9 inches tall; wearing a drab pea jacket, blue pantaloons, striped domestic shirt, and old white hat; had blue cottonade pantaloons with him. Ran off from the steamer Levant, Laurent, master, near Bayou Tunica, has been a fireman on that boat for some time in the Bayou Sara and New Orleans trade. Bullare lived on Bienville Street in New Orleans. (W.R. 11-10-38)
