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University Press of Virginia
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Kate Flanagan Coles (former slave) and her husband. Kate
Flanagan Coles Papers.
Pages, 1850, from the Templeman and Goodwin Ledger containing
entries on the buying and selling of slaves
Daguerreotype photograph, 1847, of Isaac Jefferson. Isaac
Jefferson Collection
Sulfur Mine Workers, Mineral Springs, Orange County, ca. 1890.
Hawfield Plantation Papers
African-American school in the South, ca. 1920s. Jackson Davis
Papers
An account of the sale of a cargo of slaves, July 4, 1710.
Tayloe Family Papers
An October 30, 1850, letter to James Brady in Richmond outlining
current prices on the buying and selling of slaves. Harris-Brady
Papers
Pages from a Register of Free Blacks, Washington County,
Virginia, 1838-63.
Unidentified African-American female, n.d., from the Poore
family of Albemarle County, Virginia. Carr Family Papers
Page from the Watson Farm diary, 1858, Louisa County, Virginia,
describing the work of the slave Jim. Watson Family Papers
Civil rights sit-in, Richmond, Virginia, 1960s. Anderson
Photograph Collection.
Unknown female slave of the Minor family of Amherst County,
Virginia. Minor Family Papers
A page from George Gilmer's daybook showing treatment of Thomas
Jefferson and two African-Americans. George Gilmer Daybook
Letter from Matilda R. Lomax (former slave) to Sarah Cox,
December 1853. Bremo Recess Papers
African-American laborers in Alleghany County, Virginia, 1889.
Longdale Iron Co. Photographs
An African-American family in Albemarle County, Virginia, ca.
1915. Holsinger Studio Photograph Collection