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Biographical Description

John DuBois (circa 1700-1768) was a shipowner, merchant, enslaver, and town alderman in colonial Wilmington. Noted by historians as a "harsh enslaver," Dubois had at least two of his enslaved people come before the local freeholders' court where they were both found guilty and executed. Dubois was also a signer of the letter in protest of the Stamp Act proceedings in 1765.

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