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race and class.

Five years after she signed the contract giving her husband’s land to her nephew, Mary Maddox executed a deed of emancipation that freed Kitty, her two children born at that time and four other slaves—53-year-old Ben, 37year-old James, two-year-old Arthur, and George who was just two months of age.

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