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Moseley, William P. (ca. 1819 or 1820–1890)

William P. Moseley, a black Republican from Goochland County, was a member of the Convention of 1867–1868 and of the Senate of Virginia (1869–1871). Born into slavery, Moseley likely operated a boat on the James River before the American Civil War (1861–1865). He was free by 1857, when he married the recently freed daughter of a nearby planter. After the war he lived in Richmond while buying land in Goochland and Fluvanna counties and becoming inv. . .

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