Letter from Alphonsa Blake to their lawyer Joseph Wickes
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_037
Institutional Collections
Letter regarding an enslaved woman Hannah who belonged to the Charles Tilden estate but is now living with Frederick Frazier, who hired her from John W. Walker. Blake knows that Hannah was not sold and doesn't want the Fraziers to know it was them that has informed Wickes of this. Blake wants Wickes to look into this for the Tilden estate while he negotiates a rate for the hire of enslaved man Jim from Walker.
MS0066-01-73-075 December 30 1884
legal correspondence
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slave labor
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