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Sarah - MS-COOK31

Title: Sarah - MS-COOK31
Identifier: MS-COOK31
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: "Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849", Woodville Republican
Date: April 15, 1837
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Susan Philbrick
events: 4. To be sold by Susan Philbrick
Notes: In "McCarstle to Saunders" Chapter, page 167; had children named Caesar and William
Transcription: Philbrick advertised that the slave SARAH, "a first rate cook, ironer, and washer, aged 35, and her two children CAESAR and WIL-LIAM were to be sold. "Sarah is well known in Woodville and nothing would induce me to part with her but the want of money that cannot be had any other way."