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- Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
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- Fairfax, Ferdinando (1769–1820)
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- Ferguson, John E. (1810–1859)
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- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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- General Provisions as to Slaves (1860)
- George Washington and Slavery
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- Gloucester County Conspiracy (1663)
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- Governor Effingham Reveals a Planned Slave Insurrection (1687)
- Great Awakening in Virginia, The
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- Harris, Alfred W. (1853–1920)
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- Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Indian Enslavement in Virginia
- Interview with Allen Wilson (July 16, 1937)
- Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
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- Jennings, Paul (1799–1874)
- John Nickson Runs Away (1687)
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- Journals of the Continental Congress (March 29, 1779)
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- Juneteenth
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- Lee, Robert E. and Slavery
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- Letter from Frederick Kitt to George Washington (January 15,...
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- Letter to Eliza from Hannah Valentine (November 1, 1837)
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- Letter to Mr. Winkfield, Virginia Gazette (November 30, 1775)
- Lewis Miller’s Virginia Slavery Drawings
- Limber, Jim
- List of Slaves Returned from British by Lund Washington...
- Lockhart, Narrative of Dan Josiah (1856)
- Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775)
- Loudoun County Anti-Slave Resolution (December 30, 1831)
- Lumpkin’s Jail
- Lynching in Virginia
- Madison, Ambrose (ca. 1696–1732)
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- McPherson, A Short History of the Life of Christopher...
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- Memorandum List of Tithables (July 16, 1770)
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- Minkins, Shadrach (d. 1875)
- Monticello
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- Mount Vernon, Archaeology at
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- Narratives of Henry Box Brown, The
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- Paige, R. G. L. (1846–1904)
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- Parishes and Tithes (1643)
- Parker, “Autobiography of Henry Parker” by Henry (ca. 1860s)
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- Petition from Citizens of Culpeper County (December 9, 1831)
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- PLEASANTS against PLEASANTS. Nov’r. Term 1798.
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- Randolph, Virginia Estelle (1870–1958)
- Records of the Federal Convention (August 25, 1787)
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- Runaway Slaves and Servants in Colonial Virginia
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- Slave Sale Advertisement, Virginia Gazette (November 28, 1777)
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- Slavery at the College of William and Mary
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- Teamoh, George (1818–after 1887)
- 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 Case of John Graweere (March 31, 1641)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 42 (January 22, 1788)
- The Federalist Papers: No. 54 (February 12, 1788)
- The Manumission of Lucy Brooks and Her Children (1862)
- 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....
- Thomas Fuller Obituary, Columbian Centinel (December 29, 1790)
- Thomas Jefferson’s Argument in Howell v. Netherland (1770)
- Thomas, Philip (1831–1888)
- Tiernan, Mary Spear (1836–1891)
- Time, Excerpt from Life of William Grimes, the Runaway...
- Toler, Burwell (ca. 1822–1880)
- Transatlantic Slave Trade, The
- Tucker, Beverley (1784–1851)
- Tucker, St. George (1752–1827)
- Turner’s Revolt, Nat (1831)
- Turpin, Henry (1836–1908)
- Twenty-Slave Law
- Underground Railroad in Virginia
- Underwood, John C. (1809–1873)
- 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,...
- Unknown, Biography of London Ferrill by (1854)
- Veney, Bethany (ca. 1815–1916)
- Virginia Cavalier, The
- Virginia Gentleman, The
- 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: In the High Court of Chancery, MARCH 16,...
- Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)
- Washington, John M. (1838–1918)
- Watson, John (d. December 6, 1869)
- West Virginia, Creation of
- Westmoreland Slave Plot (1687)
- Wickham, A Lost Family Found; an Authentic Narrative of...
- Will of George Washington Parke Custis (March 26, 1855)
- William Breedlove Application for Pardon (December 18, 1863)
- Williams, Narrative of Isaac (1856)
- Wilson, Joseph T. (1837–1890)
- Women during the Civil War
- Yeardley, Sir George (bap. 1588–1627)
- York County Conspiracy (1661)
