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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK40

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK40
Identifier: MS-COOK40
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: December 27, 1838
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Sold by Jacob Soria & Co.
events: 4. To be sold by Jacob Soria & Co.
Notes: Wife of MS-OVER1
Transcription: VALUABLE FAMILY OF NEGROES FOR SALE. WE offer for sale a valuable family of negroes consisting of a negro man, aged about 32 years, a good farmer and first rate overseer; smart, active and perfectly honest, been in this county over 10 years. Also, his wife, a negress aged about 20, a good field hand and house servant, cook, washer and ironer, with her child, a boy four years old. Apply immedi-ately to JACOB SORIA & Co. Dec. 27.