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Title
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Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA6
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Identifier
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MS-SEA06
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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 1, 1834
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Trade
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Seamstress
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gender
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Female
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events
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4. To be sold by unnamed enslaver
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Notes
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Listed as "sempstress"; In "McCarstle to Saunders" Chapter, page 148
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Transcription
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FOR SALE, TWO LIKELY HOUSE GIRLS, ONE a Mulatto, with her child about twelve years old. She is a pretty good sempstress, a cook, and washerwoman— stout and 30(?) years of age. The old, a handsome black, with a child three years of age, as is likewise a good sempstress, and an excellent cook, &c. Both of the above girls are likely and free of faults. Inquire of the Printer. Woodville, November 1, 1834 44w4
