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  2. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    e. Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the late eighteenth century. They primarily worked in tobacco fields. Africans were first brought to colonial Virginia in 1619, when 20 Africans from present-day Angola arrived in Virginia aboard ...

  3. Nat Turner's Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans, killed between 55 and 65 white people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in ...

  4. Great Dismal Swamp maroons - Wikipedia

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    The poem may have inspired artist David Edward Cronin, who served as a Union officer in Virginia [31] and witnessed the effect of slavery, to paint Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia in 1888. [32] In 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published her second anti-slavery novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal ...

  5. Nat Turner - Wikipedia

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    Nat Turner. Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved African-American carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831. Nat Turner's Rebellion resulted in the death of approximately sixty White men, women, and children before state ...

  6. George Washington and slavery - Wikipedia

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    George Washington ( John Trumbull, 1780), with William Lee, Washington's enslaved personal servant. The history of George Washington and slavery reflects Washington 's changing attitude toward the ownership of human beings. The preeminent Founding Father of the United States and a hereditary slaveowner, Washington became increasingly uneasy ...

  7. Thomas Jefferson and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slavery supported the life of the planter class in Virginia. [15] In collaboration with Monticello, now the major public history site on Jefferson, the Smithsonian opened on the National Mall an exhibit, Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty, (January – October 2012) at the National Museum of American History in Washington ...

  8. Anthony Johnson (colonist) - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Johnson (colonist) An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Anthony Johnson ( c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom ...

  9. Category:History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    P. People who were enslaved by George Washington ‎ (11 P) People who were enslaved by Thomas Jefferson ‎ (1 C, 17 P) Plantations in Virginia ‎ (5 C, 67 P)