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The Black men, women and children who Delaware statesman Caesar Rodney owned had been aggravating him in the spring of 1776.
“From their past vile misbehavior they have no right to expect any favour or partiallity for them at my hands,” the plantation owner wrote to his brother after some of the enslaved people were worried they would be sold and their families torn apart…