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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Hampton, Virginia, Title Page (enlargement), July 1910
This image shows the areas of Hampton where most of the events of Forsaken taken place: C&O Railroad Station, Ida Belote's home at 809 Washington Street, Virginia Christian's home at 324 Wine Street, George W. Fields residence at 124 Wine Street,…
A Catalogue of Anti-Slavery publications in America (title page)
Abolitionist Samuel May Jr, the compiler, sent this copy to fellow abolitionist Lysander Spooner with a note that “give me additions to this catalogue, or corrections of it, I shall be much obliged.”
Contract between Royall H. Eubank and Pollard Gaines
In December 1865 Pollard Gaines, an African American, contracted with Royall H. Eubank to work his Nelson County farm, tend to all the livestock, repair buildings and fences, cut and haul firewood, fill the ice house, and cultivate the garden "for…
Freedom to Slaves!
Brigadier General Robert Huston Milroy (1816–1890), commanding the United States Army units then posted in Winchester, pronounced the Emancipation Proclamation in effect, thereby freeing all enslaved Virginians in Winchester and Frederick…
