Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_035
Institutional Collections
Letter regarding money owed from the hire of their enslaved man Jerry owed by the late William Jones. Blake did not want to try and collect the money while Jones was ill but now wants to recoup from the estate.
MS0066-01-73-071 April 1 1844
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor
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