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

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Record #82 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Hestor (man)
Name of Slaveholder Isaac Short
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned
Volume AC26
Page 202
Date 1 Nov 1806
Conditions To Be Free to be free 1 Nov 1806
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person "conscious ..holding my fellow man in perpetual slavery is contrary to laws of God…"

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