A fact from Samuel Gist appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 April 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that rags-to-riches colonial Virginia slave owner Samuel Gist owned as many as 1000 slaves, most of whom were freed after his death?
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