We begin the second of four blogs focusing on African American History in Antebellum Virginia with a look at the rise of the domestic slave trade after the legal prohibition of the trans-Atlantic trade in the Middle Passage from Africa with “A Troublesome Commerce” and “Carry Me Back”. At the same time half a million...
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We begin the first of four blogs focusing on African Americans in Antebellum Virginia with a look at the enslaved themselves in North America and Virginia in “Generations of Captivity”, then “The Slaveholding Republic” looks at the U.S. Government’s complicity in the slavery establishment throughout the South and in western territories. “The World the Slaveholders...
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In our next social history look at the American Revolution in Virginia, we feature four books on African American history. “Slavery and Freedom” investigates the results of the Revolution on slave and free black families in the Chesapeake and elsewhere and the development of autonomous black communities. “Water from the Rock” describes the social and military...
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