How a Spelling Mistake Changed History
Paris, stout lad, Cornet Merrell, Formerly the property of Col. Oree, Charleston…
On the 13th of September, 1783, the above was entered into a ledger, the Carelton Papers (commonly known as the Book of Negroes”). Among the former slaves waiting to board HMS Soverign for St. John, Nova Scotia, British North America (now Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada), was a 19-year-old named Paris.
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well done,lovely piece
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