Emancipation of Clara

event name

Emancipation of Clara

Identifier

EV_2020

first name

Clara

event type

Manumission

event date

1817-04-03

source

"Deed of Emancipation for Clara Brooks." 1817. In Alexandria County Deed Book. F-2:68-69. As found in "Slave Manumissions in Alexandria Land Records, 1790-1863," The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery, https://www.freedmenscemetery.org/resources/documents/manumissions.shtml (accessed 18 September 2024).

emancipated person

Clara Brooks

enslaver

Oliver P. Finley