A Fuller Measure of Witherspoon on Slavery
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The Tax Ratables for Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The first record of Witherspoon owning a slave shows up in 1780, and that by 1784 he had two slaves. After the 1786 record, all the rest show no indication of slave ownership. We don't know what changed in 1788 or 1787? Were the two slaves sent elsewhere? Did they die? Were they emancipated? These are questions that probably cannot be answered.
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