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Robert "Councillor" Carter III (February 28, 1728 – March 10, 1804) was a planter from the Northern Neck of Virginia, United States, who for two decades sat on the Virginia Governor's Council. After the American Revolutionary War, and influenced by Baptist, Quaker and Swedenborgian faith, Carter began what became the largest manumission and release of enslaved African Americans in North America 74 years prior to the start of the American Civil War. By a deed of gift filed with Northumberland County on September 5, 1791, and related documents filed in Westmoreland County in subsequent years, Carter began manumitting 500 slaves from his plantations in his lifetime. He also settled many of them on land he gave them.

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Born	28 February 1727
Died	10 March 1804 (aged 77)
Zodiac	Pisces
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