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.
Read MoreBlogging about abolitionist Julia Wilbur, the Civil War, Alexandria, women's rights, and more
What Maddy McCoy and others learned when they went page by page through more than a century of Fairfax County paperwork.
Read MoreAn evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.
Read MoreCharleston and Savannah, History and Food!
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MorePaula Tarnapol Whitacre's website with a focus on her forthcoming biography on abolitionist Julia Wilbur.