Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_030
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Letter regarding locating their enslaved man Charles in Baltimore. They think he is in his wife's neighborhood but he keeps changing his clothes to avoid detection and works in various parts of the city. "He is shy of constables from this shore." Blake still wants to sell him and thinks they could get more than four hundred dollars. They worry that Charles is "setting a bad example to the rest."
MS0066-01-73-060 June 27 1842
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor, Fugitive slaves
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