Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #28 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Glasgow
Name of Slaveholder Joshua Laws
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned
Volume AB25
Page 239
Date 16 Nov 1805
Conditions To Be Free to serve Henry Deputy for 4 yrs & to be free 27 July 1806
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person 33 yo. "holding my fellow man in perpetual bondage and slavery is contract to the laws of god…as well as to every principle of the late gloroius revolution..in America.."

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