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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK2

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK2
Identifier: MS-COOK2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: August 2, 1816
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: P. Andrews
events: 4. To be sold by P. Andrews
Transcription: For sale by the subscriber, A Likely negro girl, aged about fifte[?], stou[?] and well grown, a good washer and an excellent field hand—Also a negro woman aged about thirty-five years, an excellent cook and house servant, honest and faithful. P. ANDREWS. Washington, August 2. 16—3