Created 1-Dec-21
Modified 23-Jul-24
On our way southward to Chincoteague we stopped at the John Dickinson Plantation near Dover, Delaware. My colleague, Kami Fletcher, is associated with the recent discovery of an African American burial ground where many enslaved and free blacks found their final rest. Like so many of the founders, Dickinson advocated liberty and held persons enslaved. Unlike the other founders he conditionally manumitted those enslaved persons during the Revolution in 1777, freeing them unconditionally in 1786.
© John Robert Pankratz
