Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA7

Item

Title
Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA7
Identifier
MS-SEA07
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source
"Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849"
Date
November 15, 1834
Trade
Seamstress
gender
Female
Enslaver
Richard T. Woolfolk
events
4. To be sold by Richard T. Woolfolk
Notes
Listed as "sempstress"; In "Garrick to McCaleb" Chapter in Ancestry.com collection, page 100
Transcription
NEGROES FOR SALE I HAVE for sale, twenty Prime Young Negroes,—amongst which are, cooks, washers, and ironers, house servants, a sempstress, a carriage driver, and a blacksmith. Richard T. Woolfolk at Mabry's Hotel Woodville, November 15, 1834 46w2
Item sets
Seamstresses