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Robert "Free Bob" Vernon
1832–1915
United States
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Robert "Free Bob" Vernon was born into slavery in 1832 in Rankin County, Mississippi. He cultivated cotton and later purchased his freedom. In 1867, he acquired approximately 2,300 acres of land in Roseland, Louisiana, in Tangipahoa Parish.
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