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Charleston Courier
Slaves for Sale
Various Advertisements from 1815

                                                                                                              

To be Sold

                                                                      By Milliken & Primerase, at Private Sale,
          FOUR very valuable CARPENTERS,  with warranted characters; also a BOATMAN, all honest sober people – no runaways.
          Two valuable Washer WOMEN, and complete house servant s.
          Also, a young Coloured WOMAN, nineteen years old last month; she is to completeest Seamstress and Lady’s Women that ever attended in a house, a nice darner and marker of the finest linen, honest, sober and of the best disposition, very healthy and very good in every sense of the word – she will be warrant ed by her owner to whoever wishes to purchase her – on her word and honor, she is sold for not a fault – nor either of the others.

April 5


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