Slave Inventory Database in Fairfax County: Crossing the 1870 Gap

Slave Inventory Database in Fairfax County: Crossing the 1870 Gap

What Maddy McCoy and others learned when they went page by page through more than a century of Fairfax County paperwork.

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Harriet Jacobs Alive (sort of)

Harriet Jacobs Alive (sort of)

An evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.

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History Lite: Charleston and Savannah

History Lite: Charleston and Savannah

Charleston and Savannah, History and Food!

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Julia Wilbur's Alexandria: The "Slave Pen"

 On the first morning after the Union occupation of Alexandria, May 22, 1861, Michigan troops came upon what had been a flourishing slave-trading establishment on Duke Street, less than a mile from the Potomac River.

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