This month’s blog is a continuation of the story I posted last month of an enslaved man, Richard, who helped his nephew Tazewell seize his…
Lydia NeurothNovember 24, 2021
During my research so far this summer for the Virginia Newspaper department’s continuing project in collaboration with Cornell University, Freedom on the Move, I have…
Kyle RogersJune 13, 2019
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that the first installment of images from the Petersburg chancery causes digitization project have been added to…
Vince BrooksSeptember 21, 2011
Located among the odds and ends of Accomack County court records is this 1758 advertisement from Landon Carter of Richmond County for his runaway slave…
Sarah NerneyAugust 10, 2011
