Tag: Free persons register

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Cuffy Pleasants: A journey from slavery to freedom in 1772

27/08/2018
Brian Sheffey
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This article is about a manumitted enslaved person's journey from slavery to freedom

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Finding Reuben Byrd: free person of color & an American Revolutionary War veteran

19/09/2016
Brian Sheffey
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Updated 23 Sep 2016 with additional Bird/Byrd family groups Reuben Byrd of Petersburg, Virginia and Orange…