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Unnamed Mississippi Carpenter - MS-CAR14

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Carpenter - MS-CAR14
Identifier: MS-CAR14
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: "Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849" The Woodville Republican
Date: December 4, 1830
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: James Girault
Home: Girault's Plantation, Dunbar's Creek
events: 4. To be sold by James Girault
Transcription: Girault advertised his plantation for sale. It was on Dunbar's Creek, the head-waters of Bayou Sara, in Wilkinson County; 12 miles from Fort Adams; 9 miles from Woodville; 4 miles from Pinckneyvill. The property was a Span-ish grant of 800 arpans and included an overseer's house, Negro quarters, 42 Negroes— "old and young, a good blacksmith and a good carpenter."