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A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom Fiction_Gift_Guide is the daughter of theThe untold saga of John Randolph's 383 slaves, freed in his much contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773 1833), which almost inexplicably freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn