Ledger, 1769-1824 1769-1777.

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Ledger, 1769-1824 1769-1777.

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Pleasants' ledger kept in Henrico County, Va. covers 1769-1777. The volume includes a few accounts kept 1823-1824 by an unidentified individual and a short story, "The Unlucky Man."

167 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...