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Description A slave notice from Williamsburg, Virginia displaying the ethnicity (Igbo) of a runaway slave.
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Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Co.),

Williamsburg, March 21, 1766 via http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=/xml_docs/slavery/ads/rg66.xml&style=/xml_docs/slavery/ads/display_ad.xsl&ad=v1766030160
Author William Lane

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