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(SLAVERY) ROBERT CARTER III

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(SLAVERY) ROBERT CARTER III
(1727/8 - 1804) Virginia planter and grandson of Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman. After a religious awakening in 1787, Carter rejected slavery and manumitted nearly 500 slaves from his plantation-the largest single release of slaves in North American history prior to the Civil War. Good association manuscript D.S. "Robt Carter," 2pp. legal folio, [Baltimore], Sept. 4, 1770 in which Carter purchases one-fifth of the "Baltimore Iron Works…" from DANIEL DULANY (1722 - 1797) of Annapolis for £100. The document is also signed by Dulany who also wrote the body of the contract. Interestingly enough, the Baltimore Iron Works depended chiefly on slave labor from its founding in 1733. Folds, some marginal losses affecting a few words of text, else good condition.