Image: An act for the purchase and manumitting negro Caesar

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Description: A Virginia General Assembly statue passed in 1789 to purchase the enslaved Caesar Tarrant from owner Mary Tarrant. The act provides for his manumission upon completion of the purchase.
Title: An act for the purchase and manumitting negro Caesar
Credit: https://ia903401.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/28/items/statutesatlargeb13virg/statutesatlargeb13virg_jp2.zip&file=statutesatlargeb13virg_jp2/statutesatlargeb13virg_0114.jp2&id=statutesatlargeb13virg&scale=2&rotate=0
Author: Law passed by the Virginia General Assembly. Collected in book form by editor William Waller Hening. Published by Thomas Desilver, Philadelphia, and printed by William Brown.
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License: Public domain
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