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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK108

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK108
Identifier: MS-COOK108
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: September 29, 1846
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Stockman & Taintor
events: 4. To be sold by Stockman & Taintor
Transcription: NEGROES AT PRIVATE SALE. FOUR very likely Slaves, viz: A Woman aged 30, first rate cook, washer and ironer, and general servant. One Man aged 26 toge her with a woman, his wife, aged 22, and child, aged 2 years—all sound and title indisputable. STOCKMAN & TAINTOR. sept 29-c2