Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_021
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Letter regarding Alphonsa's hope to find people to hire her enslaved men: Samuel, Emory, John, Charles, and Harry. Each commanding a rate of sixty dollars, although Harry may be a little less. MS0066-01-73-030 December 23 1840
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor
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