October 2, 2011
Recovering Names of Slaves in Virginia
Virginia Historical Society
The Virginia Historial Society has created an online database to gather documents about slaves for genealogists and historians.
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Virginia Historical Society
The Virginia Historial Society has created an online database to gather documents about slaves for genealogists and historians.
The Virginia Historical Society has created an online database, Unknown No Longer, of the names of more than 1,800 slaves from its manuscript collection, a number the Richmond organization thinks will grow to the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands over time.
The group’s more than eight million documents, including wills, estate records, plantation account books, and
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