Alexander Scott Withers
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title:
Alexander Scott Withers
text:
Alexander Scott Withers was a Virginia slave owner, lawyer, planter, magistrate, teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention (1861) establishing the state of West Virginia. He is celebrated as the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831), a history of the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians. He sold two of the children he fathered with a slave to slave traders further South.
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American historian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scott_Withers
date created:
2006-10-25T16:58:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T22:09:52Z
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