Why worry about the past? It's done and gone. Let's all worry about SOUTHERN
BORDERS!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael L. Nicholls <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Quakers and Slavery


> Thanks for the plug, Paul. For those interested in the relationship
between
> religion and emancipation, you can read the statements in wills and deeds
> that often provide a religious justification for the action. Furthermore,
> noting when witnesses "affirm" the document provides clues as to Quaker
> involvement. We have tried to provide a shorthand summary of these
> statements in our notes--Mick Nicholls
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Heinegg" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Quakers and Slavery
>
>
> As part of a project unrelated to Quakers, Michael L. Nicholls and Lenaye
> Howard of Utah State University researched the deeds and wills of
> manumission from eight Virginia counties and made them available on the
> internet:
http://www.usu.edu/history/faculty/nicholls/manumissions/index.htm
>
> With their kind permission, I have added them to the notes I have made
over
> the years for other counties:
> http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/virginiafreeafter1782.htm
> Paul
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