Slave Plantations In West Virginia. The following list includes the names of enslaved and formerly enslaved virginians who authored narratives of their lives, were the subjects of biographies, or who spoke to journalists or oral historians. Virginia’s 550,000 slaves constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860.
Africans found aboard la pense 353: List of virginia slave narratives. There are other people on the register with the.
Virginia humanities, mapping virginia's slave dwellings:
Volume 21, number 4 (july 1960), pp. Affidavit relative to female slave brought from savannah, georgia: Black slaves were classified as the property of the white master and were listed in plantation inventories next to cattle. In some eastern counties, slaves were the majority.