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Toby Gilmore

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Toby Gilmore (c. 1742/47 – 19 April 1812) was born in coastal West Africa (an area then known as Guinea (region)) as Shibodee Turrey Wurry, the son of a local chieftain. He was kidnapped at the age of sixteen by slave traders.

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