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Legacy Day Debutante Cotillion program, August 16, 2024 with William Leary and Vanessa Isaacs Ringgold
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Legacy Day Debutante Cotillion program, August 16, 2024 with William Leary and Vanessa Isaacs Ringgold

"Pride Without Prejudice" - Debutante Cotillions of the The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, 2024.
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"Pride Without Prejudice" - Debutante Cotillions of the The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, 2024.

Legacy Day 2024 web advertisement
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Legacy Day 2024 web advertisement

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"The Final Curtsy" - “Pride Without Prejudice” Debutante exhibit flier

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"The Weather Gauge"

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General English Examination

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Kent County Chattel Records - James Butler purchases freedom for $1 from Richard Spencer

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Kent County Chattel records - Thomas Ringgold purchase of slave Cato 1750

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Depreciation Pay List - David Wilson

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Depreciation Pay List - James Due

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Revolutionary War Muster Roles - Thomas Carney

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Revolutionary War Muster Roles - Thomas Carney

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Kent County Chattel Records - Thomas Ringgold purchase of slave Cora 1751

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Manumission certificate for Jake walker

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Kent County Chattel Records of Thomas Ringgold, 1750, 1751

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Kent County Chattel Records - Eliza, aged 40

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Kent County Freedom Certificates - John Holly manumission

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Kent County Freedom Certificates - William Perkins manumitted his wife.

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Kent County Manumission records - Richard Hynson frees Ebenezer Posey by deed.

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Harriet Lockerman, formerly Harriet Thomas, mulatto, is manumitted.

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Hannah Ringgold's manumission application in the Kent County court records

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Emmeline Boyer manumission records - from Kent County, 1840

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Ann Reed, daughter of Araminta Butler, is manumitted in 1849

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Kent County Freedom Certificate of Samuel Derry, 1849.

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Kent County Chattel records referencing Comedy, a slave.

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William Smith passed a slave girl as property to Edward Hadaway

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Kent County Chattel Records, 1845 - listing a negro boy, age 8

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Manumission record of Amanda Boyer, 23 years old in 1845, Kent County, MD

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Kent County Chattel Records - 1845

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Kent County Chattel Records of Joseph and Samuel Derry (1845)

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Kent and Queen Anne's County Manumissions.

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Kent County and Queen Anne's County manumissions in 1832.

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Queen Annes County manumission 1833-1834 of Margaret Chambers amd 15 slaves between ages of 9 and 11

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List of manumssions for the purpose of sending free blacks to Liberia as a part of the Colonization Movement.

Pages 4 - 10 from a census of the free negroes and mulattos in Kent County State of Maryland - 1832
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Pages 4 - 10 from a census of the free negroes and mulattos in Kent County State of Maryland - 1832

Cover page - A census of the free negroes and mulattos in Kent County State of Maryland - 1832
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Cover page - A census of the free negroes and mulattos in Kent County State of Maryland - 1832

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