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that the King of England had decreed that all enslaved men and women would be freed pending their baptism into Christianity.

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through the community of enslaved men and women that their once seemingly hopeless desire for

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But the local militia responded quickly and suppressing what would become known as the Chesapeake Rebellion.

Tragically, 29 people were hanged on that violent day in 1730.

But their sacrifice was not entirely in vain,

as several hundred men, women, and children successfully fled to their freedom

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