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Act of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Letter from Robert Edmondson to Mrs. St. George Tucker
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Page from Thomas Jefferson's FARM BOOK
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Description of a mulatto woman's circumstances from THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
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