Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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Letter insisting Wickes convince Blake's enslaved man Charles to either come back to the Eastern Shore or be sold in Baltimore for a term of years. They do not want Charles to know he is to be free when he is thirty-five. They want him to go to a good home but will not take less than five hundred dollars.
MS0066-01-73-055 November 16 1841
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor, Slaves--Emancipation
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