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Document for tax exemption of the enslaved man Benjamin, owned by Edward Rouzee
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Document for tax exemption of the enslaved man Benjamin, owned by Edward Rouzee

Rouzee Family, American · July 21, 1806

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

This document is from a collection of financial papers related to the plantation operations of several generations of the Rouzee Family in Essex County, Virginia. The papers date from the 1790s through 1860.

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