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Free Blacks in Accomack County during the Antebellum Period

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John