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Virginia Christian was represented by two attorneys: George W. Fields and J. Thomas Newsome. This letter probably accompanied Christian's Petition for Commutation.

John Armfield and employees guarding a coffle of enslaved men and women being marched southwest.

George Bourne declared that illustrations in his Picture of Slavery, first published in 1834, were accurate illustrations of slavery. A clergyman, Bourne became an abolitionist while serving a Presbyterian church in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area.…