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December 14, 2021
Clark Terry
Acclaimed trumpeter Clark Terry was born on this day in 1920.
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George Washington
At George Washington’s death on this day in 1799, he owned 317 enslaved Africans. His last will decreed that they be freed at the death of his wife Martha Washington.
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston was born on this day in 1829. He was a lawyer, abolitionist, educator, and a diplomat who represented the United States to the Dominican Republic.
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