Thomas Roderick Dew, an alumnus turned professor by 1826, and by 1836, the school's thirteenth president, was recognized as one of the country's foremost experts on pro-slavery thought. Following Nat ...

Veterans of the Vietnam War shared their stories during a ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial on Friday honoring those who served.

DANVILLE — A decision to move the remains of hundreds of African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation ... of the nation’s largest slave-owning operations, to ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave.

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"Your Committee on Emancipation beg leave to report as a part of the Constitution of Virginia, to be inserted in the same, under the caption of "Slavery or Freedom." First -- Slavery and ...

Slavery was a common and ubiquitous part of life on the grounds that would become Conyers’s alma mater, Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia. That land was ... to her high school on Saturday to ...

You can visit the Anse Cafard Slave Memorial at all hours of the day, any day of the week. Because of the memorial's proximity to Diamond Beach, visitors suggest that you stop here on your way to ...

Their ancestor, Richard G.L. Paige, escaped slavery in Norfolk and briefly lived in Boston before returning to Virginia, where he was elected to the House of Delegates in 1871. "He didn't have to ...