Letter, 1792 September 20, Loudoun [Virginia], to "Robert Pleasants, Esteemed Friend" / John Hough.

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Letter, 1792 September 20, Loudoun [Virginia], to "Robert Pleasants, Esteemed Friend" / John Hough.

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Letter from John Hough to Robert Pleasants. Hough discusses getting names on a petition against slavery.

1 item (3 pages) ; 29 cm.

Haverford College Library

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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...

Hough, John, 1720-1797

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