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Certificate of freedom for Jonas Pope

1851

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

These are the freedman papers of Jonas Elias Pope (1827-1900?), a carpenter, farmer, and landowner in Northampton County, N.C. His son, M. T. Pope, was an African American physician, businessman, politition, and member of the first graduating class of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C.

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  • Title: Certificate of freedom for Jonas Pope
  • Date Created: 1851
  • Type: document
  • External Link: Pope Family Papers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – University Libraries

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