64 Arthur Heeht, "Abraham Cohen: Deputy Postmaster at Georgetown, South Carolina (1789-1800),'* PAJHS, vol. XLVIII, no. 3 (March, 1959), p. 178.
66 Advertisement in Knoxville Daily Register, Apr. 30, 1863.
65 Mobile City Directories for 1839 and 1842; article on Mobile Jewish History by Alfred G. Moses, Mobile Register, June 19, 1932.
67 Advertisement in Mobile Daily Advertiser and Chronicle, Feb. 6, 1841.
68 Mississippi Free-Trader and Natchez Tri-Weekly Gazette, September 29, 1836; Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan (eds.), William Johnson's Natchez: The AnteBellum Diary of a Free Negro (Baton Rouge, 1951), pp. 66, 175, 224, 366, passim. The Johnson diary contains frequent references to sales of various kinds of merchandise, including slaves, at the Soria auctions. Davis and Hogan, The Barber of Natchez (Baton Rouge, 1954), pp. 31, 173.
68a Louisiana Gazette, July 8, 1808.
59 New Orleans City Directory for 1832; Historical Epitome of the State of Louisiana . . . (New Orleans, 1840), p. 252.
60 New Orleans City Directory for 1855.
61 EL, pp. 44-54 and 143.
62 Bancroft, op. cti., pp. 97-98.
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