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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript last will and testament of enslaver Elizabeth Rice, Fayette County, KY, 9 December 1819.
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript last will and testament of enslaver Elizabeth Rice, Fayette County, KY, 9 December 1819.

2pp, 12 3/4 x 8 in. (scattered dampstains, completely separated along horizontal fold).

Elizabeth Rice bequeaths to "my three loving sons Wm. Rice James Rice & Washington Rice, who live with me & has Eard [sic] it by their Labours, all my estate both Real & personal" including "one negro man by the name of Ben..."

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