Lewis C. Robards

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title: Lewis C. Robards
text: Lewis C. Robards was a 19th-century American slave trader of Lexington, Kentucky. He had an unscrupulous reputation as a dealer, and he was widely known for his "special" offerings: fancy girls, meaning young, light-skinned enslaved women and girls offered for sexual exploitation. Robards was also considered a likely culprit in several cases of kidnapping into slavery. His slave pen was funded in part by a loan from John Hunt Morgan; when he could not repay the loan his premises were sold to Bol
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description: 19th-century American slave trader
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date created: 2023-09-04T05:25:21Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T16:05:38Z
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