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Ruth (#
21281505
)
Black, female
Petition #
21281505
, filed in North Carolina (1815)
Status:
enslaved
Freedom: Free by 1815. Presented for freedom in 1815. Origins of freedom: manumitted by owner, her husband, a free man of color named Reuben Callaway.
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wife
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