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{"value"=>"Fugitive Slaves - Turks and Caicos Islands"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Signed instructions, with attachments, from C. Rawley, Rear Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the British fleet in Jamaica, to William Wiseman on a mission to Haiti to negotiate the return of fugitive slaves who fled there from salt ponds in the Turks Islands. The attachments, a file of five contemporary copies, include three letters from Daniel Basome, British agent in the Turks Islands; an affidavit from Joseph Frith, a resident of these islands dispatched to Haiti to identify the fugitives, \"having a personal knowledge of them; \" and a brief letter from Haiti's president Jean-Pierre Boyer, declaring any individual on Haitian soil automatically free and beyond pursuit. 6 pieces.</p>"}
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