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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK69

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK69
Identifier: MS-COOK69
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: January 19, 1842
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: John R. Stockman
events: 4. To be sold by John R. Stockman
Transcription: MOLASSES AT AUCTION. BY JOHN R. STOCKMAN. THIS morning at 11 o'clock will be sold in front of the store for account of whom it may concern without limit or reserve 46 barrels molasses. Also at same time an extensive assortment of clothing previously advertised—at 12 o'clock, a very superior negro girl, cook, washer, seamstress and general servant, title good. jan19-d1