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    Baptist minister in Charlottesville and Washington, D.C. He was married to Isabella Gibbons. William Gibbons was born into slavery in Albemarle County, Virginia...
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  • (1898–1976), British politician William Conrad Gibbons (1926–2015), American historian and foreign policy expert William D. Gibbons (1825–1886), African-American...
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    was taught to read by Mrs. Rogers. In the early 1850s she married William Gibbons, also an enslaved laborer owned by a university professor. They had...
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    Humanities. Retrieved February 21, 2024. Drewry, William Sydney (1900). The Southampton Insurrection. Washington, D.C.: The Neale Company. p. 108. Nat Turner:...
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  • actor Stephen Fry portrayed Gibbons in the biographical drama miniseries The Dropout, which is based on the podcast. Ian Gibbons was born and raised in England...
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    it was required by law that all churches have white pastors), was William D. Gibbons. The date he became pastor is not known with certainty, but was about...
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    Gary William Gibbons FRS (born 1 July 1946) is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons was born in Coulsdon, Surrey. He was educated at Purley County...
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    known entrepreneurs and philanthropists as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius...
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    Davis, Jr., and two-year-old Joseph. The two youngest Davis children, William and Varina Anne ("Winnie"), were born in the house, in 1861 and 1864, respectively...
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    Press. pp. 60. ISBN 978-0-19-512533-7 Drewry, William Sydney (1900). The Southampton Insurrection. Washington, D.C.: The Neale Company. p. 13, 151-153. via...
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    pbs.org. Accessed March 9, 2023. Horton (2002), p. 26 Breen (1980), p. 10. D.P.A, Archie Morris III (2019). Up from Slavery; an Unfinished Journey: The...
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    lived to adulthood. Of the surviving three brothers (Francis, Ambrose, and William) and three sisters (Nelly, Sarah, and Frances), it was Ambrose who would...
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    James Monroe (category College of William & Mary alumni)
    nor assume jurisdiction over them. In 1824, the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons v. Ogden that the Constitution's Commerce Clause gave the federal government...
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  • County Republican, March 13, 1873. Letter of December 20, 1802 from Thomas Gibbons, a Federalist planter of Georgia, to Jonathan Dayton, states that Sally...
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     98–115, ar p. 99. ISBN 0813915368. Gibbons, Abby Hopper; Emerson, Sarah Hopper Gibbons (1896). Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons. Told chiefly through her correspondence...
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    Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke. Floyd Phillips Gibbons was born on July 16, 1887, in Washington, D.C. Gibbons moved...
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    William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895) was an Confederate States Army General, civil engineer, railroad executive, prominent Virginia Readjuster...
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    John Tyler (category Chancellors of the College of William & Mary)
    He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death...
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    household in 1840 and six slaves in 1850; one, his cook, was Isabella Gibbons. In 1849, he married Emma Savage of Boston. In 1853 he resigned from the...
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    D., Henry (1898). Great Commanders, General Thomas. D. Appleton and Company. p. 2. Coppee, LL. D., Henry (1898). Great Commanders, General Thomas. D....
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  • arrest. Of those put ashore, one of them was likely Angela. A Captain William Peirce purchased her. These two groups of enslaved people have become known...
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    Catherine. Ann Mason selected property at Chopawamsic Creek (today in Prince William County, Virginia) as her dower house and there lived with her children...
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    Foundation for the Humanities, accessed 6 April 2011 Sankey, Margaret D. "Randolph, William (1650–1711), colonist in America" Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell. "American...
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  • 1620s-d. 1673) Henry Box Brown (c. 1815–1897) John Casor (living 1655) Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) Isabella Gibbons (c. 1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886)...
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    Oxford and baptized at St. Martin's, Oxford. The Gibbons family can be traced back to Richard Gibbons (d. 1577), who was a glover active in Oxford; by 1549/50...
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  • html, Virginia recognizes slavery 1661 - 1663 Anastasia Harman, Natalie D. Cottrill, Paul C. Reed, and Joseph Shumway (2012). "Documenting President...
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    Brian; and voice actor Sam Riegel. Famous UVA alumni Isabella and William D. Gibbons Joey Berglund, character in Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Biff Loman...
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    women from the Treasurer was called Angela, who was purchased by Captain William Peirce. She is the earliest historically attested enslaved African in the...
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    Gen. Philip St. George Cooke Brig. Gen. William R. Terrill Brig. Gen. Alexander Brydie Dyer Brig. Gen. William Hays 1st Black Officer Maj. Martin Delany...
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    1620s-d. 1673) Henry Box Brown (c. 1815–1897) John Casor (living 1655) Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) Isabella Gibbons (c. 1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886)...
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