Account book, 1771-1824 1771-1778.

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Account book, 1771-1824 1771-1778.

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Pleasants' account book kept in Henrico County, Va. covers the years, 1771-1778, and concerns the export and shipping of tobacco and other crops. It includes the religious diary, 1821-1824, of Mary W. (Pleasants) Mosby.

157 p. : bound v. ; 25 cm.

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Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801

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Robert Pleasants was a Quaker merchant, planter, and enslaver-turned-abolitionist who spent most of his life in Henrico County, Virginia. He is perhaps best known for successfully suing for the freedom of over 400 enslaved people as the plaintiff in Pleasants v. Pleasants, the largest manumission case in U.S. history. Pleasants was born about 1723 to John Pleasants III and Margaret Jordan Pleasants, Quaker members of Virginia's planter aristocracy of enslavers, at their estate o...

Webster, M. M., 1791-1844

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