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Enslaved persons, chained together in a coffle, are paraded through the streets of Washington D.C. on their way to the slave market. Detail from a larger print in the Library of Congress.

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Henry Pratt Renounces His Wife Henrietta for Adultery

Henrietta Has Given Birth to a Mulatto Child

News item from the Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, Maryland, April 1773

Legal announcement from a Maryland newspaper, 1773, that Henry Pratt renounces his wife Henrietta for adultery.
WHEREAS Henrietta, the wife of the subscriber, has committed adultery with a mulatto man, and has now a mulatto child; for which most atrocious crime I have put her away, and do forewarn all persons dealing with her on my account, as I will pay no debts contracted from this tenth day of april, 1773.
HENRY PRATT, of Talbot county.

Source: Maryland Gazette, 22 April 1773.

 

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