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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK68

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK68
Identifier: MS-COOK68
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: October 25, 1841
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: John R. Stockman, Auctioneer
Home: To be sold with her 3 month old child
events: 4. To be sold by John R. Stockman, Auctioneer
Transcription: HOUSE SERVANT FOR SALE. THE subscriber is authorized to sell a likely and very valuable negro woman, 23 years of age a good cook, washer, ironer, and nurse, and her child about 3 months old warranted sound, and title indispu-table. JOHN R. STOCKMAN. Auctioneer oct25-dtf