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    6th Virginia Volunteers
    6th Virginia Volunteers

    African American Militia Units in Virginia (1870–1899)

    African American militia units served as part of the Virginia state militia, the Virginia Volunteers, from 1872 until 1899. Although the General Assembly had long prohibited the arming... Find Out More

  • Excerpts from a Transcript of Oral Arguments in Loving...
  • Letter from Antonio de Abalia to the Council of...
  • Charles Cortez Abbott (1906–1986)
  • The Abolition of Slavery in Virginia
  • “Abolitionism,” New York Spectator (September 26, 1842)
  • Robert Abrahall (fl. 1620s–1680s)
  • Joseph Abrams (1791–1854)
  • “Account of a wonderful talent for arithmetical calculation, in...
  • “Account of Col. George Mercer’s Arrival in Virginia, and...
  • Account of the Lottery in Leicester by Rogert Hawfeilde...
  • An act ascertaining the place for erecting the College...
  • “An act concerning the building of a ffort” (October...
  • “An ACT concerning descendants of indians and other persons...
  • “An act concerning Indians” (October 1665)
  • “An act concerning the Northerne Indians” (September 1663)
  • “An ACT concerning patroles” (1801)
  • “An act concerning runaways” (1669–1670)
  • “An act concerning Servants and Slaves” (1705)
  • An Act Continuing the Act directing the building the...
  • “An act declaring all the acts, orders and proceedings...
  • “An Act declaring tenants of lands or slaves in...
  • “An act declaring that baptisme of slaves doth not...
  • An act declaring what persons shall be deemed mulattoes...
  • An act declaring who shall not bear office in...
  • “An Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital...
  • “An act enabling freemen to vote for burgesses and...
  • “An Act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing...
  • An Act establishing a Board of War (June 1779)
  • “An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco; and...
  • “An act for the apprehension and suppression of runawayes,...
  • An Act for better regulating and training the Militia...
  • An act for better securing the payment of levies...
  • An Act for establishing religious Freedom (1786)
  • An act for exempting the different societies of Dissenters...
  • “An Act for Exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting...
  • An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (March...
  • “An act for keeping holy the 13th of September”...
  • “An act for the more effectuall suppressing the severall...
  • “An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections” (1680)
  • “An act for prevention of undue election of Burgeses”...
  • “An act for punishment of ffornication and seaverall other...
  • An Act for raising levies and recruits to serve...
  • An act for re-enlisting the troops of this state...
  • An act for regulating and disciplining the Militia (May...
  • “An act for regulating conveyances” (1785)
  • “An act for regulating the Elections of Burgesses; for...
  • An act for the releife of such loyall persons...
  • An act for the removal of the seat of...
  • “An Act for repealing an Act for Irish Servants”...
  • An act for the Seatinge of the middle Plantation...
  • An Act for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regiments on...
  • “An act for suppressing outlying slaves” (1691)
  • An ACT for the Voluntary Enslavement of Free Negroes,...
  • An Act further declaring what shall be deemed unlawful...
  • “An act lymiting masters dealing with their servants” (1677)
  • An ACT more effectually to restrain the practice of...
  • Act of Toleration (1689)
  • “An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a...
  • “An ACT providing additional protection for the slave property...
  • An ACT providing for the voluntary enslavement of the...
  • “An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping...
  • “An act to … legalize the Marriages of Colored...
  • An Act to admit the State of Virginia to...
  • An Act to amend the act concerning slaves, free...
  • “An ACT to amend the act intituled, ‘An act...
  • An act to amend an act entitled, "an act...
  • An act to amend an act entitled, “an act...
  • An Act to amend an Act, entitled, “An Act...
  • “An ACT to amend an act, intituled, ‘An act...
  • An ACT to amend and explain an act further...
  • An Act to amend and re-enact the 9th section...
  • An Act to amend and re-enact section 49 of...
  • “An ACT to amend the several laws concerning slaves”...
  • “An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act...
  • “An ACT to arm the militia of certain towns”...
  • An act to authorize the manumission of slaves (1782)
  • “An Act to declare who shall have a right...
  • An ACT to define feeble-mindedness (1916)
  • “An ACT to empower the governor to transport slaves...
  • “An Act to enable the inhabitants of this Colony...
  • “An act to enable the inhabitants of this colony...
  • “An ACT to establish a guard in the city...
  • “An Act to Explain and Amend an Act Entitled...
  • An Act to provide for the immediate registration of...
  • “An ACT to punish certain thefts and forgeries” (December...
  • “An ACT to purchase Pharoah and Tom” (1801)
  • “An act to repeale a former law makeing Indians...
  • An act to revive and amend an act entitled...
  • “An Acte against Conjuration Witchcrafte and dealing with evill...
  • “An Acte towching dyvers Orders for Artificers Laborers Servantes...
  • Cornelia Storrs Adair (1884–1962)
  • Testimony of Robert J. Adams (February 19, 1884)
  • Adams Sentinel (June 3, 1862)
  • Letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush (April 22,...
  • Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson (June 26,...
  • Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson (June 27,...
  • Alice Adams (1926–1999)
  • Andrew Adams (1905–1985)
  • John H. Adams (ca. 1848–1934)
  • Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, when...
  • Pauline Adams (1874–1957)
  • Lucy Addison (1861–1937)
  • Address on the Difficulties of the Colored Youth, In...
  • Address to the General Assembly by Governor James L....
  • Advertisement by Lewis A. Collier, Richmond Enquirer (August 23,...
  • Advertisement for the Capture of Caesar, Columbian Mirror and...
  • Advertisement for the Capture of Oney Judge, Claypoole’s American...
  • Advertisement for the Capture of Oney Judge, Philadelphia Gazette...
  • Advertisement for the Founding of Richmond (1737)
  • Advertisements, Virginia Gazette (September 8, 1774)
  • Affidavit of Powhatan Bouldin (November 14, 1883)
  • African American Churches in Virginia (1865–1900)
  • African American Legislators in Virginia (1867–1899)
  • African American Militia Units in Virginia (1870–1899)
  • African Americans and Politics in Virginia (1865–1902)
  • Africans, Virginia’s First
  • “Against ffornication” (1662)
  • “Against Runawayes” (1669)
  • “Against Runnaway Servants” (1658)
  • Mary Aggie (fl. 1728–1731)
  • Ella G. Agnew (1871–1958)
  • Archibald M. Aiken (1888–1971)
  • “The Albany Forwarding Trade,” Boston Emancipator and Free American...
  • Edwin Anderson Alderman (1861–1931)
  • Alexander Owen (ca. 1830–ca. 1898)
  • Archer Alexander (d. December 8, 1880)
  • Edward M. Alfriend (1837–1901)
  • “All the knowen Seas”; an excerpt from The Principall...
  • Edgar Allan (1842–1904)
  • Allan, Memoranda of Conversations with General Robert E. Lee...
  • William Allan (1837–1889)
  • Arthur Allen (1608–1669)
  • Arthur Allen (ca. 1652–1710)
  • Floyd Allen (1856–1913)
  • John Allen (d. 1799)
  • Joseph Allen (ca. 1836–after 1905)
  • William Allen (1768–1831)
  • Isaac Allerton (ca. 1630–1702)
  • James Lindsay Almond Jr. (1898–1986)
  • James M. Ambler (1848–1881)
  • Jaquelin Ambler (1742–1798)
  • Richard Ambler (1690–ca. 1766)
  • The American Civil War in Virginia
  • American Monthly Review (September 1832)
  • American Quarterly Review (December 1834)
  • Sir Jeffery Amherst (1717–1797)
  • “Among the New Books; Good Novel of Colonial Virginia...
  • AN ACT to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court...
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Anatomical Theatre
  • Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from...
  • Joseph R. Anderson (1813–1892)
  • Peyton E. Anderson (ca. 1857–1950)
  • Sambo Anderson (ca. 1760–1845)
  • Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
  • William A. Anderson (1842–1930)
  • C. W. Andrews (1807–1875)
  • V. C. Andrews (1923–1986)
  • William H. Andrews (b. ca. 1839)
  • Sir Edmund Andros (1637–ca. 1714)
  • Angela (fl. 1619–1625)
  • Anglo-Powhatan War, Second (1622–1632)
  • Ann (fl. 1706–1712)
  • “Another Virginia Lynching,” Richmond Planet (July 16, 1898)
  • Anti-Lynching Law of 1928
  • Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
  • “The Appeal” from Proceedings of the Convention of the...
  • Appomattox Campaign
  • Appomattox, Surrender at
  • Edinboro Archer (ca. 1849–1907)
  • Fletcher H. Archer (1817–1902)
  • Gabriel Archer (ca. 1574–ca. 1610)
  • William Segar Archer (1789–1855)
  • Samuel Argall (bap. 1580–1626)
  • “An Argument Before the General Court of Colonial Virginia”...
  • John Ariss (ca. 1729–1799)
  • Arlington House
  • John Armfield (1797–1871)
  • John Armistead (fl. 1650s–1690s)
  • John M. Armistead (1852–1929)
  • Lewis A. Armistead (1817–1863)
  • Samuel Chapman Armstrong (1839–1893)
  • Army of the James
  • Army of Northern Virginia
  • Army of the Potomac
  • Army of the Valley
  • Arrivals from Virginia; an excerpt from Still’s Underground Rail...
  • Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from “Observations gathered out...
  • Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from “Short Report of...
  • Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from “A True Relation...
  • Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from Voyages from Holland...
  • Articles of Peace (1677)
  • “Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic and Martial for...
  • William H. Ash (1859–1908)
  • Turner Ashby (1828–1862)
  • Arthur Ashe (1943–1993)
  • Ashuaquid (fl. 1607)
  • Associates of Dr. Bray
  • Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
  • “At a convocation of the visitors of the college...
  • “At each bite an Arm”; an excerpt from A...
  • Atha Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk, Petition for...
  • Archibald Atkinson (1792–1872)
  • W. Atkinson (1796–1849)
  • An Attack on the Mistress Elizabeth Bowen (1679)
  • Attorneys General of Virginia
  • Joseph S. Atwell (1831–1881)
  • John H. Aulick (1790–1873)
  • “Autobiography of Elizabeth Sparks” (1937)
  • Autobiography of James L. Smith (1881)
  • Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia ...
  • “Autobiography of Richard Slaughter” (1936)

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