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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Additional laws regarding slavery were passed in the seventeenth century and in 1705 were codified into Virginia's first slave code, [37] An act concerning Servants and Slaves. The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 stated that people who were not Christians, or were black, mixed-race, or Native Americans would be classified as slaves (i.e., treated ...
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...
The oral history tells that the land for the Union Bethel RZUA Church, the adjacent school building (now a cemetery), and the cemetery were parts of the purchased land donated to create the church. To this day, members of the Callis [4] and Robertson families own tract of lands in Freeman, Virginia.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The View cohosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin have once again gotten into an on-air argument over the reasons Americans voted for Donald Trump during the Nov. 5 election.
Hercules Posey (1748 – May 15, 1812) was an African American enslaved by the Washington family, serving as the family's head chef for many years, first at Mount Vernon in Virginia and later, after George Washington was elected president of the newly formed United States of America, in the country's then-capital city of Philadelphia in ...