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Vick family letter of emancipation

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Identifier: MSS SC 474
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Handwritten letter in which the Vick family of Southhampton County, Virginia emancipated and set free Rose and Simon, two black slaves.

Dates: 1789 January 27
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vick family letter of emancipation

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