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• Mary Lumpkin: Enslaved Woman, Liberator - Great Lives Lecture

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devil's Half Acre

  the Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

  Green, Kristen (Journalist)

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  Bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands.

• All That She Carried

  the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

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  In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Richmond Slave Trade

  the Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion

  Trammell, Jack

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  With over 69 dealers and auction houses, 15th Street in Richmond, Virginia, saw tens of millions of dollars and countless human lives change hands, fueling the Southern economy. Local historian and author Jack Trammell traces the history of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solomon Northup

  the Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave

  Fiske, David (David A.), 1954-

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  A companion to the autobiographical narrative, "Twelve Years A Slave," this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup.

• Virginia Slave Narratives

  a Folk History of Slavery in Virginia From Interviews With Former Slaves

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  These narratives are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s.

• Yellow Wife

  a Novel

  Johnson, Sadeqa

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  A work of fiction inspired by the life of Mary Lumpkin. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. She’s been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic…Read moreRead more of this annotation