Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes

Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes

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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
Washington College
December 16 1839

legal correspondence
Slave labor, Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Household employees
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