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Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA40

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Seamstress - MS-SEA40
Identifier: MS-SEA40
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: December 11, 1855
Trade: Seamstress
gender: Female
Enslaver: Miles C. Folkes
events: 4. To be sold by Miles C. Folkes
Transcription: VALUABLE NEGROES FOR SALE. ONE NEGRO MAN, FIELD HAND, AGED ABOUT 85 years. 1 Negro Woman, his wife, field hand, cook and seam-stress, aged about 35 years. 1 Negro Girl, daughter of the above, aged about 13 or 14 years—all to be sold together. 1 Negro Boy, field hand, aged about 13 or 14 years. 1 Negro Boy, No. 1 field hand, aged about 14 or 15 yrs. 1 Negro Girl, washer and ironer, aged about 17 years. 1 Man and his wife, aged each about 45 years. 1 Girl, house servant, aged about 18 years. 1 Woman, cook washer and ironer, aged about 19 years. 1 Woman, cook washer and ironer, aged about 19 years. 1 Woman, superior cook, washer and ironer, aged about 19 years. 1 Girl, field hand tolerable cook, aged about 24 years. 1 Woman, field hand, aged about 18 years. Apply to de11 MILES C. FOLKES.