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Margaret Cornish
Born 1610
United States
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Margaret Cornish (Portuguese: Margarida; b. c. 1610? – living 1670) was a woman from the Kingdom of Ndongo (part of now Angola), who was one of the First Africans in Virginia. She was party to the first legal case regarding a Black person in the Colony of Virginia.
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