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Auction: 284 - Bond, Share & Americana Mailbid & Internet Exclusive
Lot: 1031

Slavery - West Indies Four ALS "Charles Gordon Gray," mostly from "Virgin Valley," their estate in Jamaica, to his father in Somerset, complaining in one about how "England seems to force [blacks] on us, who having abolished the Slave trade is the first to break it by sending an officer to Africa to obtain a thousand recruits for the black Regiments..." Buying slaves within the colony is still permitted, and he discusses that, too. VG/F. Estimate US$ 100-150

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