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Richmond Creating Center on History of Slave Trade at Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom was a center of the slave trade in the United States. Sales of human beings took place there throughout the 19th…
Marker Placed at Balls Bluff Where First Black Man to Fire on Confederates Fought
The Washington Post reports that on Saturday a new historical marker was placed at the site of the Battle of Balls Bluff alongside the Potomac…
Ashburn Colored School A Jim Crow Era One Room School House for Blacks-Only
Several years ago while I was driving to Ball’s Bluff Battlefield in Northern Virginia I came upon this sign announcing that I was at the…
When a “Slave Owner” Sought the Help of the Union Army in Re-Enslaving Black People
One experience that many Union soldiers had for the first time in their lives when they were marching through the Confederacy was was encountering enslaved…
Four Sites Added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
Four new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network These sites are, according to National Parks Traveller: The Gilmore Cabin at…
418 Unmarked Graves of Danville, Virginia’s Freedpeople Have Now Been Located Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
Phase I of Danville, Virginia’s project looking for the burial locations of the city’s formerly enslaved African American population has been completed. Ground penetrating radar…
Four Sites from Civil War & Reconstruction Periods Added to Virginia Landmarks Register
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources has added several sites associated with the Civil War and Reconstruction Era to the Virginia Landmarks Register. Here is…
Virginia Governor’s Mansion Tours No Longer Mentions Slavery Now That Youngkin Is Governor
NPR reports that Virginia Governor’s Mansion tour in Richmond no longer mentions slavery. Up until the late 20th Century the tours of the historic home…
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Confederate Apologist Appointee Resigns
Last week I wrote about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s naming of Ann Hunter McLean of Richmond to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. McLean went…
Virginia Gov. Youngkin on the Defensive After Advisor’s Pro-Confederate Statements
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin threw down once again in the “History Wars” that seem to have captured the popular right-wing imagination since the killing of…
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