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xi Acknowledgments We acknowledge with sincere appreciation: David L. Holmes, whose reading of materials related to the Reverend James Madison provided important insights; Jim Travisano, whose early reading of opening chapters gave much-needed support and encouragement; and Charlotte Johnson, whose special knowledge of Robert Crawford opened a wealth of new information to us. We also sincerely thank the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which provided a grant in support of research and a traveling public exhibit of the Edward Coles story at an early phase of work. We thank Ian Muehlenhaus, Geography Department, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, for the map of Edward Coles’s property in Illinois. Thanks also to Beth Taylor and to James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange County, Virginia, for their generosity in providing detailed information about the slaves of James Madison. ...

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