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Auction at Charleston
Auction of enslaved people
After the Sale: Slaves Going South
Groups of enslaved people being sent south
"Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of auction
"An American Barber's, Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of African American barber
"Sketching at a Slave Auction"
Article describing auction
George Lewis Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers Project)
George Lewis was born free before the Civil War and attended Freedmen's Bureau schools in Richmond before earning a law degree from Howard University. In this interview he talks about his family background, his education, the Civil War and the…
Charter and By-laws of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond, Va.
Lucy Goode Brooks solicited support from African American churches and a local meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Richmond to establish the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which the General Assembly incorporated in 1872. The charter…
Auction at Richmond
George Bourne declared that illustrations in his Picture of Slavery, first published in 1834, were accurate illustrations of slavery. A clergyman, Bourne became an abolitionist while serving a Presbyterian church in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area.…
Franklin & Armfield
John Armfield and employees guarding a coffle of enslaved men and women being marched southwest.
George W. Fields to Governor William Hodges Mann
Virginia Christian was represented by two attorneys: George W. Fields and J. Thomas Newsome. This letter probably accompanied Christian's Petition for Commutation.