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  1. …in reply to @undefined
    @tanehisicoates Correct. Suzanne Cooper Guasco's biography, _Confronting Slavery_, goes into it in more detail. +
    1. …in reply to @wcaleb
      @tanehisicoates Coles "repeatedly encouraged them [the people he freed] to emigrate across the Atlantic." (Guasco, 192)
      1. …in reply to @wcaleb
        @tanehisicoates He offered to pay for one, Robert Crawford, to go to Liberia. But "Crawford consistently refused to leave." (Guasco, 192)
        1. …in reply to @wcaleb
          @tanehisicoates Crawford told Coles he "was 'so fully engrossed & happily occupied in attending to his Family, his Farm'", not interested.