[Footnote 7: Charleston Mercury, quoted in the Augusta Chronicle, Dec. 5, 1850. This news item owed its publication to the "handsome prices" realized. A plasterer 28 years old brought $2,135; another, 30, $1,805; a third, 24, $1775; a fourth, 24, $1,100; and a fifth, 20, $730.]
[Footnote 8: Louisiana Advertiser (New Orleans), May 13, 1820, advertisement.]
Far more frequently such laborers were taken on hire. The following are typical of a multitude of newspaper advertisements: Michael Grantland at Richmond offered "good wages" for the year 1799 by piece or month for six or eight negro coopers.[9] At the same time Edward Rumsey was calling for strong negro men of good character at $100 per year at his iron works in Botetourt County, Virginia, and inviting free laboring men also to take employment with him.[10] In 1808 Daniel Weisinger and Company wanted three or four negro men to work in their factory at Frankfort, Kentucky, saying "they will be taught weaving, and liberal wages will be paid for their services."[11] George W. Evans at Augusta in 1818 "Wanted to hire, eight or ten white or black men for the purpose of cutting wood."[12] A citizen of Charleston in 1821 called for eight good black carpenters on weekly or monthly wages, and in 1825 a blacksmith and wheel-wright of the same city offered to take black apprentices.[13] In many cases whites and blacks worked together in the same employ, as in a boat-building yard on the Flint River in 1836,[14] and in a cotton mill at Athens, Georgia, in 1839.[15]
[Footnote 9: Virginia Gazette (Richmond), Nov. 20, 1798.]
[Footnote 10: Winchester, Va., Gazette, Jan. 30, 1799.]
[Footnote 11: The Palladium (Frankfort, Ky.), Dec. 1, 1808.]
[Footnote 12: Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, Aug. 1, 1818.]
[Footnote 13: Charleston City Gazette, Feb. 22, 1825.]
[Footnote 14: Federal Union (Milledgeville, Ga.), Mch. 18, 1836, reprinted in Plantation and Frontier, II, 356.]
[Footnote 15: J.S. Buckingham, The Slave States of America (London, [1842]), II, 112.]