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    The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers is a memorial in honor of those enslaved African Americans who built and worked at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville...
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    construction of its Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Designed by Höweler+Yoon, the memorial honors the community of enslaved African American laborers that constructed...
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    Isabella Gibbons (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    the quote cited above, are inscribed on the exterior of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Schulman, Gayle M. (2003). "Slaves at the University of Virginia"...
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    who had been enslaved by professors at the University of Virginia, is now engraved on the university's Memorial to Enslaved Laborers: Can we forget...
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    Thomas Jefferson's University. The University has erected a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. At the onset of the American Civil War the University of Virginia...
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  • Liberation and Freedom Day (category Monuments and memorials to Thomas Jefferson)
    has built a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, honoring the contributions of slaves who helped build and maintain the school. "The memorial was recommended...
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    slaveholder and the roughly 600 enslaved people who lived at Monticello over the decades, with a focus on six enslaved families and their descendants....
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    August 29, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020. "William & Mary dedicates memorial to enslaved 'acknowledging our history'". WTVR. Associated Press. May 7, 2022...
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    Nat Turner (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton...
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    The Rotunda (University of Virginia) (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    architecture List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (the same dimensions as the Rotunda) National Register of Historic...
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    both hired workers and enslaved people. He provided his enslaved population with basic food, clothing and accommodation comparable to general practice at...
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    Thomas Jefferson (category Ambassadors of the United States to France)
    recorded his slaveholding in 1774, when he counted 41 enslaved people. Over his lifetime he enslaved about 600 people; he inherited about 175 people while...
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    Solomon and Martin, were enslaved by Thomas Prosser, the owner of Brookfield. Gabriel was literate. He was one of the rare 5% of enslaved people of the colonial...
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    in the swamp between 1630 and 1865, Native Americans, maroons and enslaved laborers on the canal. A 2011 study speculated that thousands may have lived...
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    historians interpreted him more positively. Booker was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved African-American woman on the plantation of James Burroughs in southwest...
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  • Armfield were abusive to enslaved African Americans, joking with each other in letters in coded language about the young enslaved women they were raping...
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    Slavery (redirect from Enslaved person)
    holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person (see § Terminology)...
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  • segregated white colonists from black enslaved persons, making them disparate groups and hindering their ability to unite. Unity of the commoners was a...
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    Elizabeth Key Grinstead (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    colony that was short on labor; the law enabled enslavers to control the children of enslaved women as laborers. But it also freed the white fathers from acknowledging...
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    Retrieved June 9, 2018. The university bought a number slaves to work with free black and white laborers. Slaves did all facets of the work, leveling the ground...
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    rival to the Confederate Government of Virginia, making it one of the states to have 2 governments during the Civil War. In May, it was decided to move...
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    John Tyler (category Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States)
    lived until 1821. As of 1820, Tyler owned 24 enslaved persons at Woodburn, after having inherited 13 enslaved persons from his father, although only eight...
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    house with no injuries. Green attempted unsuccessfully to disguise himself as one of the enslaved of Colonel Washington being liberated. From this point...
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    James Madison (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention)
    fathered a child with his enslaved half-sister, a cook named Coreen, but researchers were unable to gather the DNA evidence needed to determine the validity...
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    may opt to wear Z Society rings. Selection for membership is considered an honor at the University. The Z Society contributes significantly to the University...
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    Preparing to head north through the Suez Canal to Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, and Spain, the ship's captain decided to reroute due to threats to ships in the...
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    "1-15-41". A joint memorial service was held for the three deceased victims on November 19, with just over 9,000 people in attendance to celebrate the life...
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    Angela (fl. 1619–1625), also Angelo, was one of the first enslaved Africans to be officially recorded in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Angela's early...
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    James Monroe (category Ambassadors of the United States to France)
    to suppress Gabriel's Rebellion, a slave rebellion originating on a plantation six miles from the capital of Richmond. Gabriel and 27 other enslaved people...
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    Festival moved to the Dean's office in the College of Arts and Science and then to the media studies department. The Festival's focus was expanded to encompass...
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