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Sale 2697 - Lot 278

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(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Newspaper notice of British troops who had been granted freedom in exchange for military service, in an issue of the Connecticut Journal and Weekly Intelligencer. 4 pages, 13½ x 9½ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, moderate foxing and minor dampstaining. Hartford, CT, 17 December 1782
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Includes a short account of South Carolinians who escaped from slavery to fight for the British against the Continental Army during the closing months of the war: "A party of General Marion's corps had a few days before fallen in with twelve black British dragoons, who were instantly attacked, one of them killed and the rest taken. It seems that the enemy court even the assistance of the negroes in the southern states, these poor wretches desert their homes and place themselves under the protection of the British commanders, but too late to repent their folly, as every species of drudgery is assigned to them."

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