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    Franklin and Southampton County are a statistical region in Central Virginia made up by Franklin, an independent city with around 8,500 citizens, and Southampton County, a county just short of 20,000 citizens.

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    • Franklin
    • Boykins
    • Branchville
    • Capron
    • Courtland, the county seat
    • Ivor
    • Newsoms

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    Some of the most famous fugitives from slavery were born in this county; see transatlantic slave trade and Black Belt for context.

    • John Brown (c.1810 – 1876, not to be confused with the namesake abolitionist) is known for his 1855 memoir Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England.
    • Anthony W. Gardiner became the ninth President of Liberia
    • Dred Scott was subject to the Dredd Scott decision.
    • Nat Turner led the Nat Turner rebellion.

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