I, too, enjoyed Levy's book on Councilor Robert Carter and his
emancipation of an unprecedentedly large number of enslaved people.

One question that Levy started at the beginning of the book and never
pursued, though, and which has set me to thinking off and on since it
came out, is this: Why did that remarkable event pass largely unnoticed
in the historical literature, even in accounts of the family and the one
previous book on Carter?

My first reaction was that. . . 

On second thought: Here's a good topic for discussion on  Va-Hist.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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