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... 5 KB (423 words) - 19:31, 9 March 2024 |
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... 7 KB (743 words) - 00:11, 19 April 2024 |
Treatment of slaves in the United States (redirect from Treatment of the enslaved in the United States) 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... 46 KB (5,487 words) - 22:52, 16 March 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,827 words) - 20:00, 2 November 2023 |
University of Virginia (section Enslaved laborers) 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... 180 KB (16,870 words) - 11:09, 28 April 2024 |
George Washington and slavery (redirect from George Washington and enslaved humans) enslaved people as one of mutual obligations; he provided for them and they in return served him, a relationship in which the enslaved were able to approach... 124 KB (17,000 words) - 10:02, 5 March 2024 |
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... 35 KB (3,332 words) - 01:45, 23 April 2024 |
Booker T. Washington (section Honors and memorials) interpreted his actions positively. Booker was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved African-American woman on the plantation of James Burroughs in southwest... 98 KB (10,643 words) - 03:29, 5 March 2024 |
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... 120 KB (14,208 words) - 20:45, 4 April 2024 |
Thomas Jefferson and slavery (redirect from Thomas Jefferson and enslaved humans) slaveholder and the roughly 600 enslaved people who lived at Monticello over the decades, with a focus on six enslaved families and their descendants.... 98 KB (12,523 words) - 13:14, 24 April 2024 |
Nat Turner (category People enslaved in Virginia) 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved African-American carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton... 34 KB (3,693 words) - 16:04, 18 April 2024 |
Thomas Jefferson (category Ambassadors of the United States to France) whippings in his absence. His nail factory was staffed only by enslaved children. Many of the enslaved boys became tradesmen. Burwell Colbert, who started his... 216 KB (22,283 words) - 19:04, 26 April 2024 |
Gabriel's Rebellion (section Background to the revolt) 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... 31 KB (3,595 words) - 16:23, 20 April 2024 |
Liberation and Freedom Day List of plantations in Virginia Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Scramble (slave auction) Seasoning (slavery) Slavery in the... 121 KB (14,034 words) - 16:38, 23 March 2024 |
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... 144 KB (16,706 words) - 05:17, 25 April 2024 |
Beckham the enslaved family was thus freed.: 296 An enslaved man belonging to Colonel Washington was killed. An enslaved man belonging to hostage John... 112 KB (12,836 words) - 21:23, 19 April 2024 |
from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street)... 13 KB (1,377 words) - 22:06, 23 February 2024 |
segregated white colonists from black enslaved persons, making them disparate groups and hindering their ability to unite. Unity of the commoners was a... 10 KB (1,556 words) - 12:31, 20 April 2024 |
as many as 120 enslaved people and free African Americans in retaliation. After trials, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed 56 enslaved people accused... 42 KB (4,554 words) - 10:47, 18 April 2024 |
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... 143 KB (16,786 words) - 17:00, 7 April 2024 |
penalty to any member who exposed the society's secrets. Student society activity for the first period of the university appears to have been confined to similar... 41 KB (4,187 words) - 16:40, 25 April 2024 |
Armfield were abusive to enslaved African Americans, joking with each other in letters in coded language about the young enslaved women they were raping... 7 KB (650 words) - 09:00, 30 November 2023 |