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Albert, an enslaved bricklayer and plasterer, was sent to Chapel Hill in May 1846 to help his brother Osborne plaster the halls in the lengthened Old East and Old West at the university. Dabney Cosby, who enslaved both men, wrote to president David L. Swain that Albert's plastering and roughcasting had preference to any done in that part of the state.
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