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Ben (#20378901)

Black, male

Petition #20378901, filed in Delaware (1789)

Status: enslaved

Moral Attributes: ungovernable; thief

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A black family at the Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia, USA, about 1907 © John Tewell.
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