Excerpt from Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830: Together With Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 The report on the Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 attached hereto developed in a similar way. The investigators were impressed also with the frequent occurrence of such wide separation of the mas ter from the slave. In noting the cases of free Negro ownership it was a simple matter, then, to record also the cases of absentee ownership, and it was done ...
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Excerpt from Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830: Together With Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 The report on the Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 attached hereto developed in a similar way. The investigators were impressed also with the frequent occurrence of such wide separation of the mas ter from the slave. In noting the cases of free Negro ownership it was a simple matter, then, to record also the cases of absentee ownership, and it was done accordingly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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