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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK173

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK173
Identifier: MS-COOK173
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: January 6, 1852
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: H. H. Simmons
Home: Washington Hotel
events: 4. To be sold by H. H. Simmons
Transcription: NEGRO FOR SALE. A No. 1 Negro Woman, cook, washer and ironer, of good character and title, about 24 years old. Apply to H. H. SIMMONS. jan6 Washington Hotel.