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- “A Slave of George Washington!” by Benjamin Chase, The...
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- “Abolitionism,” New York Spectator (September 26, 1842)
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- “Against Runawayes” (1669)
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- “Another Virginia Lynching,” Richmond Planet (July 16, 1898)
- “At a convocation of the visitors of the college...
- “At each bite an Arm”; an excerpt from A...
- “Aunt Betty’s Story, the Narrative of a Slave Woman”
- “Autobiography of Elizabeth Sparks” (1937)
- “Autobiography of Henry Parker” by Henry Parker (ca. 1860s)
- “Autobiography of Richard Slaughter” (1936)
- “Blake; or, The Huts of America” (1859)
- “Cash for Negroes.” (June 5, 1826)
- “Cash in Market.” (May 15, 1828)
- “Celebration of Day of Freedom” (April 4, 1905)
- “Civil War veteran of Portsmouth, Virginia” (1937)
- “Decision in the Trial of Anthony Burns”; an excerpt...
- “Description of the Slave Ship ‘Brookes'”; chapter 6 of...
- “English running away with negroes” (1661)
- “Faithful Janitor Dead at 89,” Charlottesville Daily Progress (October...
- “Folklore material from Upper Guinea” (1938)
- “From Charlottesville. Land Improvement Company—Delegates Elected—Interesting Items.” (May 17,...
- “From Missouri” Richmond Enquirer” (December 11, 1819)
- “Fugitive Slaves in Ohio,” New York Daily Times (September...
- “Funeral of Henry Martin,” Charlottesville Daily Progress (October 9,...
- “Funeral Procession,” Richmond Dispatch (June 7, 1854)
- “Gabriel’s Defeat” (October 21, 1831)
- “Gabriel’s Defeat” (September 17, 1831)
- “Gabriel’s Defeat” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (September 1862)
- “General Lee’s Views on Enlisting the Negroes,” Century Magazine...
- “Henrietta King”; an excerpt from Weevils in the Wheat...
- “Henry Martin, 1826–1915” by John S. Patton, Alumni Bulletin...
- “Henry Martin” by David M. R. Culbreth, The University...
- “Hussey’s Reaper.” (July 12, 1841)
- “Interview of Mr. Charles Grandy” (1937)
- “Interview of Mrs. Candis Goodwin”
- “Interview of Mrs. Della Harris” (1937)
- “Interview of Mrs. Fannie Berry” (February 26, 1937)
- “Interview of Mrs. Georgina Giwbs, ex-slave” (1937)
- “Interview of Mrs. Marriah Hines” (1937)
- “Interview of Mrs. Minnie Fulkes” (1937)
- “Interview with Horace Tonsler” (date unknown)
- “Letter to the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and...
- “Life Among the Lowly, No. 1” by Madison Hemings...
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- “Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith” by...
- “Miraculous Escape,” Boston Emancipator and Free American (May 11,...
- “Miscegenation” by Basil L. Gildersleeve (April 18, 1864)
- “More Fugitive Slaves,” New York Daily Times (May 14,...
- “Mr. Jefferson’s Servants”; an excerpt from The Private Life...
- “Mysteries of a Shamble,” New-York Tribune (July 15, 1861)
- “Negro pioneer teacher of Portsmouth, Virginia”
- “Negro women not exempted from tax” (1668)
- “Negro womens children to serve according to the condition...
- “News from Fortress Monroe” (January 4, 1863)
- “Observations in Several Voyages and Travels in America” by...
- “Of Servants and Slaves in Virginia”; an excerpt from...
- “Old Joe Anderson, Greenville, Once slave of C. H....
- “On the Beauty and Fertility of America”; chapter 14...
- “Our massa Jefferson he say” by Anonymous (September 1,...
- “Preface”; an excerpt from Antifanaticism: A Tale of the...
- “Private Jails,” The Liberator (December 27, 1834)
- “Ran away from the subscriber” (April 13, 1769)
- “Sambo and the Ass” by Basil L. Gildersleeve (April...
- “Sketches in the Free and Slave States of America”...
- “Some Facts That Should Come to Light,” New-York Tribune...
- “Statement of Jinny Scott wife of Ed Scott” (June...
- “Tales of Oppression” by Isaac T. Hopper, National Anti-Slavery...
- “The Albany Forwarding Trade,” Boston Emancipator and Free American...
- “The Appeal” from Proceedings of the Convention of the...
- “The Banditti,” Richmond Enquirer (September 20, 1831)
- “The Beginnings of the Miscegenation of the Whites and...
- “The most promising work”; an excerpt from “Exhibition of...
- “The Passing of John Robinson” from the Richmond Planet...
- “The Political Situation,” Annual Message and Accompanying Documents of...
- “The President, Again” by James Thomson Callender (September 1,...
- “The Quakers”; an excerpt from A Key to Uncle...
- “The Richmond Freedmen,” New-York Tribune (June 17, 1865)
- “The story of ‘Uncle’ Moble Hopson” (1936)
- “The story of Charles Crawley, ex slave” (1937)
- “The Sun Do Move” by John Jasper (1878)
- “The United States Bond”; an excerpt from Isaac T....
- “Their devilish plot”; an excerpt from The History of...
- “To the New York Committee for the Celebration of...
- “Twenty and odd Negroes”; an excerpt from a letter...
- “Uncle Gabriel”
- “Uncle Henry: Bell-Ringer, A Dramatic Monologue,” Corks and Curls...
- “Washington’s Runaway Slave,” The Liberator (August 22, 1845)
- “What tyme Indians serve” (1670)
- “Women servants whose common imployment is working in the...
- “A Suggestion.” (April 19, 1876)
- “An interview with Fountain Hughes” (1949)
- “Interview of Mrs. Armaci Adams” (June 25, 1937)
- “Interview with Archie Booker” (Date Unknown)
- “Interview with Baily Cunningham” (1938)
- “Interview with Betty Jones” (Date Unknown)
- “Interview with Cornelius Garner” (Unknown, May 18, 1937)
- “Interview with Ellis Bennett” (January 7, 1937)
- “Interview with Rev. Ishrael Massie” (April 23, 1937)
- “Interview with Robert Ellett” (December 25, 1937)
- “Interview with Sally Ashton” (Date Unknown)
- “Interview with Susan Broaddus” (Date Unknown)
- “Oration by Frederick Douglass, delivered on the occasion of...
- “To The Editors of College Topics” (1890)
- "The Negro and the Criminal Law"; chapter 6 of...
- A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and...
- A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul...
- A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the...
- Autobiography of James L. Smith (1881)
- Autobiography of John B. Smith
- Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia ...
- Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861)
- Commonwealth versus Camillus Griffith (1823)
- Confessions of Nat Turner, The (1831)
- Confessions of Nat Turner, The (1967)
- Davis v. Crouch (January 1, 1876)
- George Balcombe (1836)
- Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith by Philip Barrett (1859)
- Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman, The (1889)
- Negro in Virginia, The (1940)
- Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
- Slave Ship, The (1924)
- The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive...
- U. D. C. Catechism for Children (1904)
- Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser (September 28, 1791)
- Liberty is Sweet: A Conversation with Woody Holton
- A Lost Family Found; an Authentic Narrative of Cyrus...
- A Sketch of My Life and Our Family Record...
- 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...
- Advertisements, Virginia Gazette (September 8, 1774)
- African American Churches in Virginia (1865–1900)
- Albert R. Brooks (c. 1817–1881)
- Alfred Caldwell (1817–1868)
- Alfred W. Harris (1853–1920)
- Ambrose Madison (ca. 1696–1732)
- Amos A. Dodson (1856–1888)
- An act declaring what persons shall be deemed mulattoes...
- An act declaring who shall not bear office in...
- An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (March...
- An ACT for the Voluntary Enslavement of Free Negroes,...
- An Act further declaring what shall be deemed unlawful...
- An ACT providing for the voluntary enslavement of the...
- An act to amend an act entitled, "an act...
- An Act to amend an Act, entitled, “An Act...
- An ACT to amend and explain an act further...
- An Act to amend the act concerning slaves, free...
- An act to authorize the manumission of slaves (1782)
- An excerpt from the diary of George Washington (January...
- Angela (fl. 1619–1625)
- Ann Banks Davis (1830–1907)
- Anthony Burns (1834–1862)
- Appeal by Members of the Pleasants Family (September 26,...
- Archibald Atkinson (1792–1872)
- Archibald Batte (d. by April 12, 1830)
- Archibald W. Campbell (1833–1899)
- Arrivals from Virginia; an excerpt from Still’s Underground Rail...
- Arriving in Virginia; an excerpt from “Short Report of...
- Associates of Dr. Bray and the Bray Schools
- Bacon Tait (1796–1871)
- Bayley Wyat’s Speech (December 1866)
- Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893)
- Bethany Veney (ca. 1815–1916)
- Beverley Tucker (1784–1851)
- Billy (fl. 1770s–1780s)
- Billy or Blind Billy (ca. 1805–1855)
- Biography of London Ferrill by Unknown (1854)
- Black Baptists in Virginia (1865–1902)
- Black Confederates
- Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
- Burkley Bullock (ca. 1830–1908)
- Burwell Toler (ca. 1822–1880)
- C. W. Andrews (1807–1875)
- Chapter 15: “Thirty and Nine”; an excerpt from The...
- Chapter CIII of the Code of Virginia (1860)
- Chapter II; an excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave...
- Chapter IV; an excerpt from With Thackeray in America...
- Chapter VII; an excerpt from the Narrative of the...
- Charles E. Hodges (1819–after April 15, 1910)
- Charles J. Faulkner (1806–1884)
- Charlottesville during the Civil War
- Christopher McPherson (ca. 1763–1817)
- Circular to William Stuart, Hiland Crow, and Henry McCoy...
- Clotel; or the President’s Daughter (1853)
- Clothing and Adornment of Enslaved People in Virginia
- Cohabitation Act of 1866
- Col. R. E. Lee’s Report (October 19, 1859)
- Colonial Virginia
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Conference with President Andrew Johnson (June 16, 1865)
- Corinna Hinton (1835–1887)
- Court Ruling on Anthony Johnson and His Servant (1655)
- Daniel Webster Recommends Paul Jennings (June 23, 1851)
- Davis, A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah...
- Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention (June 15, 1788)
- Deed of Gift, Robert Carter III’s
- Denying Free Blacks the Right to Vote (1724, 1735)
- Depositions for the Claim of Benjamin Summers (February 6,...
- Diary of George Washington (April 22, 1785)
- Diary of George Washington (March 1, 1788)
- Diary of George Washington (September 1, 1784)
- Dolley Madison and Her Slaves (March 31, 1848)
- Dorm Life; an excerpt from History of the University...
- Drumgoold, A Slave Girl’s Story by Kate (1898)
- E. G. Corprew (ca. 1830–1881)
- Editorial in the Waverly Watchman (March 18, 1873)
- Edward Coles (1786–1868)
- Edward D. Daniels (1828–1916)
- Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly (1818–1907)
- Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655–1660)
- Emanuel Driggus (fl. 1645–1685)
- Enclosure: Washington’s Plans for His River, Union, and Muddy...
- Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
- Enslaved Fishermen and Mariners in Virginia
- Enslaved House Servants
- Excerpt from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin (1880)
- Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F....
- Excerpt from Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a...
- Excerpt from From Log Cabin To the Pulpit, or,...
- Excerpt from Life of George Henry by George Henry...
- Excerpt from Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave,...
- Excerpt from the Lynchburg Virginian (September 8, 1831)
- Excerpt from the Richmond Enquirer (January 12, 1832)
- Excerpt from the Richmond Enquirer (January 7, 1832)
- Excerpt from Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years...
- Excerpts from Governor John Floyd’s Message to the General...
- Excerpts from Twenty-Eight Years a Slave by Thomas L....
- Ferdinando Fairfax (1769–1820)
- Ferdinando Fairfax, “Plan for liberating the negroes within the...
- Fields Cook (ca. 1817–1897)
- Fountain M. Perkins (1816 or 1817–1896)
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Franklin and Armfield
- Free Blacks in Colonial Virginia
- Fugitive Slave Clause, The Constitution of the United States...
- Fugitive Slave Laws
- Gabriel’s Conspiracy (1800)
- General Court Responds to Runaway Servants and Slaves (1640)
- General Provisions as to Slaves (1860)
- George Boxley (ca. 1780–1865)
- George Fitzhugh (1806–1881)
- George L. Dixon (1818–1907)
- George Teamoh (1818–after 1887)
- George Washington and Slavery
- George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857)
- George Washington’s Last Will and Testament (July 9, 1799)
- Gilbert Hunt (ca. 1780–1863)
- Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
- Godwyn, Preface and Introduction from The Negro’s and Indians...
- Governor Effingham Reveals a Planned Slave Insurrection (1687)
- Gowan Pamphlet (fl. 1779–1807)
- Great Awakening in Virginia, The
- Guy Powell (d. by November 19, 1900)
- Hector Davis (1816–1863)
- Hemings-Jefferson DNA; an excerpt from “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last...
- Henry Box Brown (1815 or 1816–1897)
- Henry Martin (1826–1915)
- Henry Turpin (1836–1908)
- Hercules (b. ca. 1754)
- High Court of Chancery Pleasants Injunction (March 16, 1798)
- Highland
- Hiring Out of the Enslaved
- Housing for the Enslaved in Virginia
- Protected: Indentured Servant and Slave Patrols in Virginia
- Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Indian Enslavement in Virginia
- Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from...
- Interview with Allen Wilson (July 16, 1937)
- Jack Ditcher (b. ca. 1772)
- James Coles Bruce (1806–1865)
- James Lafayette (ca. 1748–1830)
- James W. Hunnicutt (1814–1880)
- Jane Webb (ca 1682–1764)
- Jefferson, Thomas and His Family
- Jefferson, Thomas and the Practice of Law
- Jim Limber
- John Armfield (1797–1871)
- John B. Prentis (1788–1848)
- John Brown (1800–1859)
- John C. Underwood (1809–1873)
- John Dabney (ca. 1824–1900)
- John E. Ferguson (1810–1859)
- John Hartwell Cocke (1780–1866)
- John M. Washington (1838–1918)
- John Nickson (fl. 1687)
- John Nickson Runs Away (1687)
- John Robinson (1825 or 1826–1908)
- John Watson (d. December 6, 1869)
- Joseph Abrams (1791–1854)
- Joseph Fossett (1780–1858)
- Joseph P. Evans (1835–1889)
- Joseph R. Anderson (1813–1892)
- Joseph R. Holmes (ca. 1838–1869)
- Joseph T. Wilson (1837–1890)
- Journals of the Continental Congress (March 29, 1779)
- Juneteenth
- Kitty Foster (ca. 1790–1863)
- Last of the Pioneers or Old Times in East...
- Letter from “A Private Citizen” to James Monroe (December...
- Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson (June 26,...
- Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson (June 27,...
- Letter from Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (March 14,...
- Letter from Anthony Whitting to George Washington (January 16,...
- Letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson (August 19,...
- Letter from Clement Biddle to George Washington (April 27,...
- Letter from Editor, Richmond Whig and Commercial Journal (August...
- Letter from Edward Coles to Thomas Jefferson (July 31,...
- Letter from Edward Coles to Thomas Jefferson (September 26,...
- Letter from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge to Joseph Coolidge...
- Letter from Eugene Davis to Thomas H. Key (November...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (February...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (October...
- Letter from Fielding Lewis to Rev. John Waring (September...
- Letter from Frederick Kitt to George Washington (January 15,...
- Letter from George Washington to Alexander Spotswood (November 23,...
- Letter from George Washington to Anthony Whitting (December 23,...
- Letter from George Washington to Anthony Whitting (January 20,...
- Letter from George Washington to Anthony Whitting (May 19,...
- Letter from George Washington to Burwell Bassett Jr. (August...
- Letter from George Washington to Clement Biddle (July 28,...
- Letter from George Washington to Frederick Kitt (January 10,...
- Letter from George Washington to Frederick Kitt (January 29,...
- Letter from George Washington to John Francis Mercer (September...
- Letter from George Washington to John Hancock (December 31,...
- Letter from George Washington to John Laurens (July 10,...
- Letter from George Washington to Joseph Whipple (November 28,...
- Letter from George Washington to Lund Washington (April 30,...
- Letter from George Washington to Oliver Wolcott Jr. (September...
- Letter from George Washington to Robert Lewis (August 17,...
- Letter from George Washington to Robert Morris (April 12,...
- Letter from George Washington to Timothy Pickering (March 3,...
- Letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear (April 12,...
- Letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear (November 22,...
- Letter from George Washington to William Pearce (December 18,...
- Letter from George Washington to William Pearce (December 23,...
- Letter from George Washington to William Pearce (January 26,...
- Letter from George Washington to William Pearce (March 30,...
- Letter from George Washington to William Pearce (November 14,...
- Letter from Howell Cobb to James A. Seddon (January...
- Letter from James Hill to George Washington (August 30,...
- Letter from James Hill to George Washington (December 13,...
- Letter from James Madison to James Madison Sr. (September...
- Letter from James Madison to James Monroe (February 10,...
- Letter from James Madison to Robert J. Evans (June...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (January 22,...
- Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (October 17,...
- Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson (September 15,...
- Letter from James Winthrop to Jeremy Belknap (March 4,...
- Letter from John C. Underwood in the New York...
- Letter from John Pory to Sir Dudley Carleton (1619)
- Letter from Joseph Whipple to George Washington (December 22,...
- Letter from Judah P. Benjamin to Robert E. Lee...
- Letter from Louisa Alexander to Archer Alexander (November 16,...
- Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe (August 30,...
- Letter from Nancy to her children (September 17, 1824)
- Letter from Nathaniel Butler to Nathaniel Rich, January 12,...
- Letter from Rev. James Marye Jr. to Rev. John...
- Letter from Rev. John Waring to Robert Carter Nicholas...
- Letter from Rev. Jonathan Boucher to Rev. John Waring...
- Letter from Robert Carter Nicholas to Rev. John Waring...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Mildred Childe...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee Jr. to Robert E....
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Charles Carter Lee...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Ethelbert Barksdale (February...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Henry Lee (December...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Hill Carter (January...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis (September...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert E. Lee to Mary Randolph Custis...
- Letter from Robert L. Madison to James Madison (January...
- Letter from Robert Michie to David Watson (December 21,...
- Letter from Robert Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson (February 8,...
- Letter from Robert Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson (June 1,...
- Letter from Sarah Stewart to Dolley Payne Todd Madison...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker (August 30,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Coles (August 25,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe (September 20,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow (October 8,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes (April 22,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes (June...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty (July 31,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis (April 12,...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas de Condorcet (August...
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph Jr....
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph Jr....
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Short (January 18,...
- Letter from Thomas Lee to George Washington (June 28,...
- Letter from Virginia Slaves to Bishop Edmund Gibson (August...
- Letter from William Yates and Robert Carter Nicholas to...
- Letter the Fifth; an excerpt from Observations on a...
- Letter the Third; an excerpt from Observations on a...
- Letter to Eliza from Hannah Valentine (November 1, 1837)
- Letter to Fields Cook and the Colored State Convention...
- Letter to Mr. Winkfield, Virginia Gazette (November 30, 1775)
- Lewis Miller’s Virginia Slavery Drawings
- Life Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith...
- Life of William Grimes, the Runaways Slave. Written by...
- Life, including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty of...
- List of People Enslaved by Descendants of John Pleasants...
- List of Slaves Returned from British by Lund Washington...
- Literacy and Education of the Enslaved in Virginia
- Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775)
- Lott Cary (ca. 1780–1828)
- Loudoun County Anti-Slave Resolution (December 30, 1831)
- Lucy Goode Brooks (1818–1900)
- Lumpkin’s Jail
- Lynching in Virginia
- Madison, James and Slavery
- Mark DeMortie (1829–1914)
- Martha Haines Butt (1833–1871)
- Martin R. Delany (1812–1885)
- Mary Aggie (fl. 1728–1731)
- Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (1802–1896)
- Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (1788–1853)
- Mary Randolph Custis Lee (1807–1873)
- Mary Richards Bowser (fl. 1846–1867)
- Mary Spear Tiernan (1836–1891)
- Matt Clark (ca. 1844–after 1892)
- McPherson, A Short History of the Life of Christopher...
- Memoirs of Samuel Spottford Clement Relating Interesting Experiences in...
- Memorandum List of Tithables (July 16, 1770)
- Memorandum List of Tithables (June 20, 1769)
- Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves (ca....
- Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907)
- Monticello
- Mount Vernon, Archaeology at
- Mutiny on the Ferrers Galley; an excerpt from A...
- Narrative of Dan Josiah Lockhart (1856)
- Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, when...
- Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy (1843)
- Narratives of Henry Box Brown, The
- Nat Turner’s Revolt (1831)
- Nathaniel M. Griggs (d. 1919)
- Ned’s Freedom Suit (May 22, 1797)
- Newspaper Advertisement for Runaway Slaves, George Washington (August 20,...
- Noah Davis (1804–1867)
- Oney Judge (ca. 1773–1848)
- Parishes and Tithes (1643)
- Partisan Leader, The (1836)
- Paul Jennings (1799–1874)
- Peter Carr (1770–1815)
- Peter V. Daniel (1784–1860)
- Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp
- Petition from Citizens of Culpeper County (December 9, 1831)
- Petition from Citizens of Hanover County (December 11 and...
- Petition from Citizens of Northampton County (December 6, 1831)
- Petition from Inhabitants of Fauquier County (December 7, 1831)
- Petition from Inhabitants of Washington County (December 17, 1831)
- Petition from the Citizens of Buckingham County (December 16,...
- Petition from the Society of Friends, Charles City County...
- Petition from Women of Augusta County (January 19, 1832)
- Petition from Women of Fluvanna County (November 24, 1831)
- Philip Thomas (1831–1888)
- Philip Vickers Fithian (1747–1776)
- Phillip Mongom Accused of Stealing Hogs (1660)
- PLEASANTS against PLEASANTS. Nov’r. Term 1798.
- Proclamation from Governor Nicholson (1690)
- Punishment for the Enslaved Man Sam (1688)
- Query XVIII; an excerpt from Notes on the State...
- R. G. L. Paige (1846–1904)
- R. H. Dickinson (1811 or 1812–1873)
- Records of the Federal Convention (August 25, 1787)
- Refugees during the Civil War
- Remarks by William Williams (August 11, 1865)
- Rewarding Birkenhead (1663)
- Richard Eppes (1824–1896)
- Robert Beverley (ca. 1740–1800)
- Robert Carter (1728–1804)
- Robert Carter III’s Deed of Gift (August 1, 1791)
- Robert E. Lee and Slavery
- Robert Peel Brooks (1853–1882)
- Robert Pleasants (1723–1801)
- Royal Charter of the College of William and Mary...
- Runaway Advertisement (January 28, 1768)
- Runaway Servants (1643)
- Sally Cottrell Cole (d. 1875)
- Sally Hemings (1773–1835)
- Sambo Anderson (ca. 1760–1845)
- Samuel Blackburn (1761–1835)
- Samuel F. Kelso (ca. 1825–1880)
- Self-Emancipated Enslaved People and Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Sexual Exploitation of the Enslaved
- Shadrach Minkins (d. 1875)
- Ship manifest detailing the transport of 92 enslaved persons...
- Silas Omohundro (1807–1864)
- Sir George Yeardley (bap. 1588–1627)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the “Peculiar...
- Slave Insurance
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years...
- Slave Sale Advertisement, Virginia Gazette (November 28, 1777)
- Slave Ships
- Slave Trade, Eyre Crowe’s Images of the
- Slavery at the College of William and Mary
- Slavery at the University of Virginia
- Slavery during the Civil War
- Sound in Colonial Virginia
- Sound in Jefferson’s Virginia
- Speech by James H. Gholson to the House of...
- Speech by Samuel McDowell Moore to the House of...
- Speech by William B. Preston to the House of...
- Speech by William H. Brodnax to the House of...
- St. George Tucker (1752–1827)
- Statement by Francis Preston Blair (April 14, 1871)
- Stratford Hall
- Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences as Told...
- Tazewell Branch (1828–1925)
- Testimony about the Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
- Testimony in the Trial of Gabriel (October 6, 1800)
- Text A of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund...
- The Abolition of Slavery in Virginia
- The American Civil War in Virginia
- The Case of John Graweere (March 31, 1641)
- The Domestic Slave Trade in Virginia
- The Economics of Slavery
- The Economy of the Enslaved in Virginia
- The Enslaved Community at Montpelier
- The Federalist Papers: No. 42 (January 22, 1788)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 54 (February 12, 1788)
- The Known World (2003)
- The Manumission of Lucy Brooks and Her Children (1862)
- The Missed Opportunity of the Emancipation Monument
- The Ship “Thomas”; chapter 7 of Liverpool and Slavery...
- The Speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (Of Berkeley) in...
- The Thomas Hughes Affair; an excerpt from Isaac T....
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
- The Trial of Anthony Burns (1854)
- The Virginia History and Textbook Commission
- Thomas Bayne (ca. 1824–1888)
- Thomas Fuller (ca. 1710–1790)
- Thomas Fuller Obituary, Columbian Centinel (December 29, 1790)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in Howell v. Netherland (1770)
- Thomas R. Dew (1802–1846)
- Twenty-Slave Law
- Underground Railroad in Virginia
- Union Occupation of Charlottesville (1865)
- Unionism in Virginia during the Civil War
- United Daughters of the Confederacy
- United States Colored Troops, The
- United States Presidential Election of 1860
- University of Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes (July 4–7,...
- University of Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes (October 4–5,...
- Untitled Narrative by Fields Cook (1847)
- Virginia Cavalier, The
- Virginia Estelle Randolph (1870–1958)
- Virginia Gentleman, The
- Virginia Luxuries and Moral Impossibilities
- Virginia Slave Narratives
- Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832, The
- Virginia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, The
- Virginia Soldiers (Confederate) during the Civil War
- Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Decision in Pleasants v....
- VIRGINIA: In the High Court of Chancery, MARCH 16,...
- Virginia’s First Africans
- W. Atkinson (1796–1849)
- West Virginia, Creation of
- Westmoreland Slave Plot (1687)
- Will of George Washington Parke Custis (March 26, 1855)
- William Allen (1768–1831)
- William Barret (1786–1871)
- William Breedlove Application for Pardon (December 18, 1863)
- William Crane (1790–1866)
- William H. Brodnax (ca. 1786–1834)
- William Henry Fitzhugh (1792–1830)
- William Henry Ruffner (1824–1908)
- William Johnson Hodges (d. 1872)
- William Jr. Daniel (1806–1873)
- William Lee (fl. 1768–1810)
- William P. Moseley (ca. 1819 or 1820–1890)
- William Peirce (d. btw. 1645 and 1647)
- William Roscoe Davis (d. 1904)
- William Washington Browne (1849–1897)
- Williams, Narrative of Isaac (1856)
- Willis A. Hodges (1815–1890)
- Willis M. Carter (1852–1902)
- Women during the Civil War
- York County Conspiracy (1661)
