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Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA33

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA33
Identifier: MS-SEA33
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: January 8, 1851
Trade: Seamstress
gender: Female
Enslaver: R. H. Elam
events: 4. To be sold by R. H. Elam
Notes: Multiple seamstresses, number not specified
Transcription: NEGROES! NEGROES! IN addition to my former lot of Negroes, I have just received twenty-seven LIKELY YOUNG NEGROES. Among them may be found a very superior blacksmith, and one male and one female cook, very likely. Also, several fine washers. ironerers and seamstresses. They are offered for sale at the Forks of the Road. jan 8-tf R. H. ELAM.