Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_013
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Alphonsa Blake asks Wickes if Judge Chambers' enslaved woman Ellen is available for hire. Blake had previously hired her.
MS0066-01-73-016 December 16 1839
legal correspondence
Slave labor, Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Household employees
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