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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK87

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK87
Identifier: MS-COOK87
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: March 25, 1845
Trade: Cook
Enslaver: S. C. Field
events: 4. To be sold by S. C. Field
Transcription: For Sale. A FIRST RATE House Servant 20 years of age, black, called an extra good cook, washer and ironer,—very likely. Also a first rate man 25 years of age, he is black— a very superior drayman, coachman, house or body servant—raised in Virginia, and brought here about 2 years ago. [mar25] S. C. FIELD.