Editors'
Notes: Alexander Spotswood Grigsby was a well known slave dealer and
merchant in Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia. Grigsby owned a general
store in Centreville with Robert Whaley, and the partners both bought
and sold slaves until they dissolved their partnership in 1858. Grigsby
shared the slave business in the county with another dealer, Joseph Bruin,
but instead of competing, the two slave dealers split the county, with
each taking a portion.
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the history of African Americans in central Pennsylvania from the colonial
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