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Chapin, Charles

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh Adams Papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004537]
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0373
Scope and Contents The Hugh Adams Papers archive is comprised of approximately 75 documents concerning the emancipation of nineteen slaves of the Adams estate and their estate imposed emigration to Careysburg, Liberia. Adams was actively involved for many years with the American Colonization Society ( A.C.S.) which promoted and engaged in the emigration process of free or freed African-Americans to Liberia on the west African coast. Included in the archive is an original handwritten copy of the will of Hugh...
Dates: 1857-1860

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Free African Americans 1
Liberia 1
Slaves -- Biography 1
Virginia -- Rockbridge County 1