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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Another Love Story

I don't know why these private bills affect me so much, but perhaps because, while better late than never, they help us to see the very human side of slave owners and their slaves.  From Hening's Laws of Virginia, 11:362:

That's right: Anne Rose and her daughter Margaret Rose received their freedom, and Walter Robertson's estate.

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