Person:Robert Carter (30)

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Robert Carter, "Councillor”
b.Feb 1727/8 Lancaster, Virginia, United States
d.10 Mar 1804
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Name Robert Carter, "Councillor”
Gender Male
Birth[1] Feb 1727/8 Lancaster, Virginia, United StatesNomini Hall
Death[1] 10 Mar 1804


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Robert "Councillor" Carter III (February 1727/28 – March 10, 1804) was an American plantation owner, a founding father and a one-time British government official. After the death of his wife, Frances Ann Tasker Carter, in 1787, Carter embraced the Swedenborgian faith and freed almost 500 slaves from his Nomini Hall plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. By a "Deed of Gift" filed with the county in 1791, he began the process of manumitting slaves in his lifetime. His manumission is the largest known release of slaves in North American history prior to the American Civil War and the largest number ever manumitted by an individual in the United States.

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