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Robert E. Desrochers, Jr., Slave-for-Sale Advertisements and Slavery in Massachusetts, 1704-1781, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 3, Slaveries in the Atlantic World (Jul., 2002), pp. 623-664
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