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Grand Jury indictment of Virginia Christian for the murder of Ida Belote.

Copy of April 9, 1912, Elizabeth City County Circuit Court Judgement sentencing Virginia Christian to death by electrocution at the Virginia Penitentiary on June 21, 1912.

This enlargement shows the gentrification occurring in once high poverty areas of the city and the emergence of high poverty areas in the suburbs.

Increased shading indicates increased percentage of dwelling units needing major repairs.

After the money the convention appropriated to pay its expenses had been exhausted, the convention required the auditor of public accounts to issue coupons to cover the unpaid per diem allowances of convention members. The delegates either redeemed…

Throughout the Civil War thousands of enslaved men, women, and children attained their freedom by seeking refuge with United States troops as they moved across Virginia. They were declared "contraband of war" in May 1861.

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…