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Plymouth Church, Pinky's bill of sale

Image represented is one of a related set (CHUR 0103, CHUR 0104), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three-page handwritten document. Label: "'Liberation Document' giving freedom to Sally Maria Diggs, known as 'Pinky,' the nine year old slave girl sold by Henry Ward Beecher from Plymouth Pulpit, Brooklyn, in 1860, who will be presented at the [Annive]rsary Services in Plymouth Church on the evening of Sunday, [May 15]".

IMAGE DATE1927
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