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Monday, August 01, 2005
Geography of Slavery in VA
A
morning of coffee and the classifieds in 1772 Virginia may have yielded the following reading: "THREE POUNDS REWARD. FOR taking up, and bringing home, NAT and CATO, two Runaway Slaves belonging to the Subscriber, living in Middlesex." The advertisement is one of more than 4,000 in a rich digital archive culled from Virginia and Maryland newspapers to offer a unique window into the history of slavery.
For more info, visit the Virginia Center for Digital History.
Posted by fm on August 01, 2005 at 04:09 PM