[American Colonization Society, “Intelligence,” The African Repository and Colonial Journal 2 (Sept. 1827): 220:] [Themes: slavery—manumission, colonization] Miss Patsey Morris, of Louisa county, Virginia, lately deceased, has liberated all her slaves (about sixteen) with a request that they should be sent to Liberia. She has also left five hundred dollars to fit them out and defray the expenses of their passage.
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