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Christmas 1825: Thornton is kidnapped from the plantation and sold south to New Orleans100 Dollars Reward. Thornton is a stout built black fellow, about twenty-one or two years of age, rather above the ordinary height, and was sold under the name of Henry. Persons wishing to communicate, will direct to Millville, King George County, Va. Francis Fitzhugh. Source: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), Friday, 4 July 1828. Notes: The kidnapping of slaves from Maryland and Virginia plantations, as well as the kidnapping of Blacks from free states, was a major problem in after Congress outlawed the importation of slaves in 1808. Kidnapped slaves were sold to buyers in the deep South for work on huge cotton and sugar plantations. Read more about this practice here. |
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Covering the history of African Americans in central Pennsylvania from the colonial era through the Civil War. Support the Afrolumens Project. Read the books: The Year of Jubilee, Volume One: Men of God, Volume Two: Men of Muscle
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