GALEANO, Eduardo

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ADVERTISEMENTS

For sale:

- Half Breed Negress of the Cabinda race, for the sum of 430 pesos. Knows rudiments of sewing and ironing.

- Leeches, recently arrived from Europe: prime quality. Four, five, and six vinrenes apiece.

- Carriage. Will sell for five hundred patacones, or exchange for one negress.

- One negress, thirteen or fourteen years old,free of-vices; of the Bongala race.

- Small mulatto, eleven years old, knows rudiments of tailoring.

- Essence of sarsaparilla, two pesos per bottle.

- One nursing female. To be sold without offspring, has good and Plentiful milk.

- A lion, tame as a dog, will eat anything; a bureau and chest, both of mahogany.

- Maid, free of vices and disease, of the Conga race, approximately eighteen years of age; also, a piano and other pieces of furniture, all at reasonable prices.

(From Uruguayan newspapers of 1840, twenty-seven years after the abolition of slavery.)

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