John Boynton letter to Isaac Boynton
Second page from a letter by John Boynton to his father, Isaac, describing male and female slaves working in the fields in Mississippi Springs. He compares the cost of male versus female slaves, and comments (unfavorably) on southern cooking, also done by slaves.
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