The data has been extracted from transcriptions of advertisements in the Virginia Gazette, published in Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 compiled by Lathan Windley.
This is not something Ellison has wanted to talk about. Growing up in North Carolina during the Depression, Ellison wondered why his family's lifestyle was better than other black families in Greensboro. But his questions went unanswered. ````As he g
The first slaves were brought to the Chesapeake region in the 1600s to work in the fields and homes of colonists, largely because of the decline in the number of indentured servants. At first the numbers of slaves were small, but the evolution of an econo
This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over 'legitimate' trade--nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves--in West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of e
Vilet Lester writes to her former mistress, Patsey Patterson, briefly describing her chain of owners since she left the Patterson's. She inquires about others she has left behind, in particular her daughter, whom Lester's new owner has agreed t
The slave-holding culture of Old Virginia had quickly spread into the westernmost counties of Kentucky. Indeed, it is probable that bondmen accompanied longhunters into the wilderness of "Caintucke" prior to 1775.
If childhood was a special time for enslaved children, it was because their parents made it so. They stood between them and slaveholders who sought to control them psychologically and to break their wills to resist. Parents also looked out for their child
