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Jerry (#20885042)

Black, male

Petition #20885042, filed in Louisiana (1850)

Status: enslaved

Moral Attributes: convicted of murder and sentenced to life in the penitentiary

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