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Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches

Foley, Louise Pledge Heath.

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Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 Foley VOL. 1

A question of freedom : the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War

Thomas, William G.

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Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THO

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