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Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA10

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA10
Identifier: MS-SEA10
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Missisippi Free Trader
Date: August 21, 1838
Trade: Seamstress
gender: Female
Enslaver: Sold by Jacob Soria & Co.
events: 4. To be sold by Jacob Soria & Co. for an unnamed enslaver
Notes: Has 3 year old son being sold with her
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.