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Wanting to go to Liberia, 1854

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ItemID
wmsl064
IDEntry
7793
Creator
Herald of Freedom & Torch Light
Date
1854-06-28
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1800-1864
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Got Enough Of It.

We learn from the Mail that “the negroes manumitted by a gentleman of Jefferson Co., Va., some forty in number, whose passage through this place on their way to Chambersburg, Pa., was the cause of remark, have gotten tired of their Pennsylvania acquaintances and returned to their former home — with the view of going to Liberia.”