Letter, 1778 November 2, Little River Perquimans County, to "Dear Friend Robert Pleasants" / Thomas Nicholson.

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Letter, 1778 November 2, Little River Perquimans County, to "Dear Friend Robert Pleasants" / Thomas Nicholson.

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Letter from Thomas Nicholson to Robert Pleasants. Includes a "decree of the Supreme Court in favour of Negroes [seiz'd?] & sold in Carolina". In regards to manumitted slaves being sold into a second bondage.

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Haverford College Library

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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...

Nicholson, Thomas, 1715-1780

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