The name of the project comes from this 1788 return of five children. Palm, Ruth, Nell, Pegg, and Jo each owed twenty-eight years of labor to their mother’s owner, a Shippensburg farmer named Robert Peebles. A Just and True Return is intended to serve as a kind of reparative justice. The information contained within theseContinue reading “Term Slave Return, Robert Peebles, 1788”
The name of the project comes from this 1788 return of five children. Palm, Ruth, Nell, Pegg, and Jo each owed twenty-eight years of labor to their mother’s owner, a Shippensburg farmer named Robert Peebles.
A Just and True Return is intended to serve as a kind of reparative justice. The information contained within these documents, these slaves returns, must be returned to the descendants of those whom they purport to describe.
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