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John Quitman

"No part of the United States holds out better prospects for a young lawyer . . . [The planters] live profusely; drink costly Port, Madeira, and sherry, after the English fashion, and are exceedingly hospitable."

-John Quitman (law partner of Melrose's John McMurran), 1822
William Johnson's Diary  

Did You Know?
Free Black barber and diarist William Johnson owned sixteen slaves at the time of his death in 1851.

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