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Virginia Receipts for Enslaved Persons
This collection contains nineteenth century financial documents, including tax records for various Virginia residents. Also included are several hand-written receipts mentioning the sale or labor of enslaved people, including a Black child named Peter and a Black man named Bob.
Virginia Republican Party Flyer
The Virginia Republican Party Flyer lists the African American Republican candidates for Virginia elected offices in 1921 and includes Maggie L. Walker, the first American female bank president, as the candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction and John Mitchell, Jr., the editor of the Richmond Planet, as the candidate for Governor.
Samuel Williams Ledger
The Samuel Williams Ledger contains a "Memorandum of the amount Paid to Each of my Children Toward Their Legacies" with accompanying pages identifying ten children by name along with associated inheritance.
Barbary Wilson Deed of Emancipation for Harry
This collection contains a deed of emancipation signed by enslaver Barbary Wilson of Bath County, Virginia, freeing Harry, identified as a Black man, on January 5, 1822. Harry was one of 14 people that Wilson had enslaved and manumitted in 1822.
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- Banks, Nannie Mae (Rice) (1895-2000) 1
- Board, Lillie May (Rice), 1899-1956 1
- Bob (enslaved person) 1
- Bouey, Elizabeth Coles, ca. 1890-1957 1
- Carter, H. G. (Harry Gilmore), 1886-1926 1
- Chirver, Robert 1
- Collier, William H., 1822-1906 1
- Currin, Lynch Alexander, 1812-1871 1
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- Dickerson, Thomas (Nottoway County, Va.) 1
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- Gilmer, W. B. 1
- Giovanni, Gary Ann, 1940-2005 1
- Giovanni, Nikki 1
- Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. Tadmore Light Lodge #6184 (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Hammet, James Preston, d. 1879 1
- Hardin, Charles W., c. 1823-1899 1
- Harry, freedman 1
- Hite, William R., Jr. 1
- Independent Order of St. Luke (Blacksburg, Va.) 1
- Kinzer, Edward Hower, 1831-1866 1
- Lee, Hyo Keun 1
- Linkous, Burgess Riley, 1827-1902 1
- Moody family (Northampton County, NC) 1
- National Association of Ministers' Wives 1
- Norman, Robert Younger, 1913-1977 1
- Norwood, John W. (John Wall), 1803-1885 1
- Patsy (enslaved person) 1
- Payne, Solomon Gomarah, Pfc., 1895-1962 1
- Peter (enslaved person) 1
- Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Va.) 1
- Pilgrim Gospel Singers (Promise Land Baptist Church, Moneta, Va.) 1
- Randolph, Lucy 1
- Ransome, Mary M., 1899-1968 1
- Rice family 1
- Rice, Fletcher Roland (1865-1966) 1
- Rice, Georgianna (Jennings) (c.1875-1928) 1
- Rice, James Cornelius, Pfc., 1915-1963 1
- Rice, Naymon Eddieray, Pfc. (1915-1955) 1
- Roberts, George E. , 1834-1887 1
- Rogers, James (Jimmy) Lester, Pfc. (1920-1945) 1
- Scott, Charles W. 1
- Sherman, Jacob, b. 1781 1
- Stribling, Francis T. (Francis Taliaferro), 1810-1874 1
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 1
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- Watts, Laura B. (Rice), 1897-1957 1
- Western Lunatic Asylum (Va.) 1
- Williams, Samuel W., 1848-1921 1
- Wilson, Barbary, d. ca. 1822 1
- YMCA at Virginia Tech 1 + ∧ less