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• About The Project
  • A Note on Methodology
  • Accessibility and Use
  • Credits
• Browse the Ads
  • Apprentices
  • Enslaved
  • Indentured Servants
  • Husbands and Wives
  • Prisoners
  • Soldiers
• Map
• Scholarship
  • “Born to be hanged”
  • The History of Slavery in Middletown
  • The Underground Railroad in Connecticut
• Analytics
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Candace and Vira

Run away from Lynde Lord and Julius Deming, two negro girls, one named Candace, and the other Vira, both about 22 years of age- Candace is a short thick wench, round faced- Vira is a tall strait wench of a yellow complexion; they each took a large…

Newspaper: Connecticut Journal

Date: August 9, 1798

Location: Litchfield, CT