In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason.
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy.
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