Pepys letter asking Captain Stanley to sell enslaved man (IMAGE)

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Pepys letter asking Captain Stanley to sell enslaved man

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Pepys Library MS 2861. A letter written by Samuel Pepys in September 1688 asking Captain Edward Stanley to sell an enslaved man in a plantation abroad.

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The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

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