Robert Carter III was a most unlikely herald of liberty. The grandson of the Virginia land baron Robert “King” Carter (who convinced colonial authorities to let masters amputate the toes of runaway slaves) inherited a 65,000-acre empire of wheat plantations at age 4. Carter grew up to be a clothes-conscious dandy who mingled with George …
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