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Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

Editorial note — XVII

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Will Book No. 7, p. 267, Clerk's Office, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Note: Robert E. Lee qualified as executor under this will and executed in 1862 the necessary papers emancipating the testator's slaves of whom there were one hundred and ninety-six.

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