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A notice warning of the risk of smallpox spreading with the importation into the Chesapeake and Low Country of enslaved individuals landed in Charles Town, South Carolina,

This typed transcription shows a page from Ann Thomson Mason's Last Will and Testament.

The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis,

The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.

The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.

This trial book shows the absence of George Mason IV, a presiding Justice of the Peace, in a court case involving the public acknowledgment of the ages of enslaved children, possibly for the purpose of reinforcing their rightless state or…

This photograph depicts another perspective of the cramped staircase used by the enslaved people of Gunston Hall.

This excerpt from the account book of William Carlin, a tailor in Alexandria, Virginia, shows a record of George Mason IV buying clothes for his family and enslaved personal servant named James, who was the "livery" of Gunston Hall. This originally…