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"The Manumission of Ann and Rufus Johnson," two manuscript documents from Belvidere, Warren County, freeing a married slave couple in 1828 and verifying the birth dates of their four children and the years in which these children would be free from the legal obligation to work for the Johnsons’ former mistress.

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