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Re: Virginia slave Insurrection of 1730
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Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:19:10 -0400
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Did you look in the governor's papers? I found that many of the court
records of a 19th-century capital case involving a slave had been
transferred at that time to the governor's papers, because he had to
rule on clemency and compensation to the owner. When the state
executed a slave it was a "taking" of property, requiring compensation
to the owner from the state.
Henry Wiencek
Charlottesville

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