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Revolutionary War - Request for compensation to be paid to Nathaniel Seely for his slave, Amos Seely, who was killed in the Revolutionary War, 1783. Top reads "pay-table office, July 30th, 1783..."

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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1783 07 30
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Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Enslaved People
  3. History
  4. Revolution, 1775 1783
  5. Slave Labor
  6. Slaveholders
  7. Slaver
  8. Slavery
  9. Social Conditions
  10. United States

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