Historical marker unveiled in Suffolk, Virginia, honoring community founded by former slave
Virginia unveils a new historical marker honoring Belleville, a community in Suffolk founded by William Saunders Crowdy, a ...
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Groundbreaking for Shockoe Institute celebrates Richmond’s Emancipation Day: 'These are all of our stories'
City leaders and the Shockoe Institute held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, highlighting the significance of the ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
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Shockoe Institute held ceremonial groundbreaking on Richmond’s Emancipation Day
City of Richmond leaders and the Shockoe Institute held a ceremonial groundbreaking in Main Street Station on Thursday on the ...
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Abolition of Slavery in Virginia.
"Your Committee on Emancipation beg leave to report as a part of the Constitution of Virginia, to be inserted in the same, under the caption of "Slavery or Freedom." First -- Slavery and ...
Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in Virginia
NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...
Couple sentenced to 375 years collectively for forcing Black children to work 'as slaves'
Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to up to 215 years. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to up to 160 years, the Kanawha ...
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A White Slave from Virginia.
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