Mulberry Trees for Sale

The Unionist 1834-04-10

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FOR SALE—300 white mulberry trees suitable for transplanting. S.BARROWS.

Brooklyn, March 20. 33tf

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Sylvester Barrows (1801-1876) was a minister as well as a horticulturist. He had a distant relative, Ephraim P. Barrows Jr., who was a minister with connections to the New York City anti-slavery movement [Cole, Charles C. Jr. 1953. The Free Church Movement in New York City. New York History 34:3:284-297 (July 1953).]. The sale of mulberry trees here is part of "Connecticut's Great Mulberry Mania of the 1830s." This was an attempt to cultivate (literally) a home-grown silk industry in New England. See this article for more information.

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Title: Mulberry Trees for Sale
Description: S. Barrow selling Mulberry Trees
Bibliographic Citation: The Unionist 1834-04-10
Full Issue Sequence Number: 1834-04-10 p.03.50
Type: Text
Language: English
Publisher: The Unionist
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject: Advertisements
Source: The Unionist 1834-04-10
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--text-0350
Category: Unionist content
Issue: 36
Related People: Sylvester Barrows
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