How should we make an appropriate category or other edit to reference "Cato, the black slave of Thomas Paine"?

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How should we make an appropriate category or other edit to reflect the fact that "Cato [was a] black slave of Thomas Paine. Paine deeded Cato to his three children on Mar. 9, 1748/9 in repayment of a legacy from their maternal grandmother. He rewrote this on Nov. 28 in favor of Abigail and Eunice alone although "reserving Cato to me my life time." Cato was still with the family as late as 1754 when he was hired out as a laborer and was perhaps sold to a Ralph Morgan of Boston in that year (see RTP to Thomas Paine, Dec. 10, 1754). His later history is unknown." Source: 

https://www.masshist.org/publications/rtpp/index.php/view/RTP1d003#sn=1 (see footnote 4)

WikiTree profile: Thomas Paine
in Policy and Style by Fran Cummings G2G Crew (400 points)
edited by Ellen Smith

2 Answers

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Hi Fran, we  would add the slave owner by county category for Thomas, but also create a profile for Cato. If you'd like USBH Project to do that, let me know. Or you can look at our Heritage Exchange Portal for links to our help pages

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage:_Heritage_Exchange_Portal
by Emma MacBeath G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)

I think it would be good for the Project to create a profile for Cato. Thanks.

Cato's profile has been created. Hopefully more sources will come to light to tell us more about him.
+7 votes

Another great thing to do (regarding profile edits) on a slave owner profile:

Add a === Slaves === heading and briefly tell what you know about Cato there, along with any other slaves the owner may have held.  (And Cato should be linked in that section to his own profile.)

by Bartley McRorie G2G6 Pilot (194k points)
Done. Thank you.

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