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"She was once a slave": Sarah Brook, a woman formerly enslaved by the Fenwick Family, requests her freedom papers, May 29th, 1832
In a letter from May, 1832, Henry Elder, the future Archbishop of Cincinnati, writes to Rev. George Fenwick, to recount the story of Sarah Brook, a woman formerly enslaved by the Fenwicks who is requesting her freedom papers.