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Sancho Saunders

Born 1805

United States

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Sancho Saunders (born 1805) was a member of the South Carolina's House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. He represented Chester County, South Carolina. He was documented as a literate Baptist minister who was a slave before the American Civil War.

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