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FOR SALE By the subscriber, a Negro wench
Hardenbergh, Jacob Rutsen
1801-03-27
Jacob R. Hardenberg (Queen's College trustee and son of the college's first president) advertises a 35-year-old black woman for sale in Somerville. The ad was first issued on December 16, 1800, and ran for at least 3 months until March 1801 in…
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Photograph: Alice Jennings Archibald as a young woman
1930s/1940s approx.
Undated black and white photograph of young Alice Jennings Archibald in a shirt with a small flower at her collar. Approximate date range: 1930s –…