Black Craftspeople Digital Archive · John

John - MS-CAR33

Title: John - MS-CAR33
Identifier: MS-CAR33
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: "Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849", Woodville Republican
Date: June 22, 1844
Trade: Carpenter
gender: Male
Enslaver: Daughla Dinar
events: 1. Self-emancipated from Daughla Dinar
Transcription: The slave JOHN was com-mitted to the Wilkinson County jail; age 30 or 35; 5 feet 6 inches tall; had sundry clothing with him; carpenter by trade; proved out of this jail by Jesse Ashworth in 1840 living in Texas near Louisiana. Dinar was a Frenchman living in or near New Or-leans.