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Bookmark or Share- Monticello commemorates anniversary of Lafayette visit, legacy of slaveryFor the 200th anniversary of Lafayette’s return to Monticello, the historical site celebrated, driving home the message that history must not be forgotten. “As Jefferson wrote, ignorance is ...
- Long-lost identities of slaves uncovered in old Virginia papersA historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new...
- How did slavery develop in colonial Virginia? | Jamestown-Yorktown ...In the 1600s, English colonists in Virginia began buying African people to labor in tobacco fields. The first African people were brought to Jamestown in 1619. The middle passage to Virginia. Enslaved African people suffered many terrible months before reaching Virginia.
- Virginia Slave Laws and Development of Colonial American SlaveryAlthough derived from the Barbadian Slave Code, Virginia Slave Laws were the immediate model for the other colonies (except Carolina, which was settled by Barbadian English planters) and therefore serve as the best model for understanding the development of slavery in Colonial America.
- Slavery | Virginia Museum of History & CultureThe 550,000 enslaved Black people living in Virginia constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860. Travelers to Virginia were appalled by the system of slavery they saw practiced there.
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