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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK54

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK54
Identifier: MS-COOK54
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: January 7, 1840
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: E. Thompson & Co.
events: 4. To be sold by E. Thompson & Co.
Transcription: NEGRO WOMAN AT AUCTION. WILL be sold this morning at 11 o'clock, A. M. in front of our slaes rooms, one likely negro wo-man, a good field hand, and a good washer, ironer and cook. Title indisputable. E. THOMPSON & CO. jan7-d1t corner Main and Wall.