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1. wikipedia, Robert Carter I. 1 TYPE Web Site
1 URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carter_I
1 DATE 4 Sep 2006.
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2. wikipedia, Robert Carter I. 1 TYPE Web Site
1 URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carter_I
1 DATE 4 Sep 2006.
Robert Carter III was an American plantation owner, founding father and onetime British government official. After the death of his wife, Frances Ann Tasker Carter, in 1787, Carter embraced the Swedenborgian faith and released more than five hundred slaves from his Nomony Hall plantation and very large house in Williamsburg, Virginia.
He was appointed to the Virginia Council by King George II and then reappointed by King George III. Later, despite expressing support of the crown after George III's repeal of the Stamp Act 1765, he resigned as Councillor and eventually supported the American cause in the Revolution.
Toward the end of his life, he moved from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland, in part to get away from family and neighbors who looked askance upon his Swedenborgian faith and upon his program of manumission of all the slaves attached to his estate, which continued after his death. (The program was designed to be gradual so as to lessen the resistance of white neighbors. Frequently, Carter rented land to recently freed slaves, sometimes evicting previous white tenants.),,
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1727 - 1804 (77 Jahre)
gest. nach 1757 (Alter > 53 Jahre)