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Not the least curious is the small number of negroes. Rolfe states, “About the last of August (1619) came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negors” (Stith, p. 126), and nearly five years after, when this census was taken, there were but twenty-two in the Colony. page 38 of Colonial Records of Virginia. STATE PAPER OFFICE. COLONIAL ................
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