Robert Carter the 3rd, set free 400-500 slaves and rehired them as workers and educated them, despite his family, neighbours and the government trying to stop him
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It was all good until the part where he "educated" them, i.e. tried to enculturate them with white supremacist values instead of acknowledging that slaves have ways of knowing that lie outside the limited perspective of white society.
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