File:An act for the purchase and manumitting negro Caesar.jpg

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English: A Virginia General Assembly statue passed in 1789 to purchase the enslaved Caesar Tarrant from owner Mary Tarrant. The act provides for his manumission upon completion of the purchase.
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Author Law passed by the Virginia General Assembly. Collected in book form by editor William Waller Hening. Published by Thomas Desilver, Philadelphia, and printed by William Brown.

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A Virginia General Assembly statue passed in 1789 to free Caesar Tarrant from slavery

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