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Clarke County slave’s death sentence for plot commuted

Posted: January 26, 2013

By Maria Hileman

Berryville — In the late 1850s, tensions were so high between whites and blacks in Virginia that a slave could be sentenced to death for merely saying he supported the idea of armed...



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