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Unrecorded Mississippi Blacksmith - MS-BLA38

Title: Unrecorded Mississippi Blacksmith - MS-BLA38
Identifier: MS-BLA38
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: November 2, 1850
Trade: Blacksmith
Enslaver: R. H. Dickinson
Events: 4. To be sold by R. H. Dickinson
Home: B. F. Cochran's Estate
Home Location: Mississippi
Notes: Multiple blacksmiths, number not specified; B. F. Cochran seems to have replaced John D. James as trader of enslaved people [The Mississippi Free Trader, Oct. 5, 1850]
Transcription: NEGROES FOR SALE. THE subscriber has now on hand, for sale NINE-TY-SIX VALUABLE SLAVES, at the Forks of the Road. They belong to the estate of the late B. F. Cochran, and will be sold at private sale, under the order of court. Among them are some fine smiths, carpenters, seamstresses and house servants. In order to have an early settlement of the business of the estate, they will be sold upon reasonable terms. nov 2-s&wtf R. H. DICKINSON, Ex'r., &c.
gender: Male