The first African slaves came to this country in 1609, and Virginia would become the center of bondage. By the 1850’s, eight ...

As recently as a couple of years ago, most people in Brownsburg, Virginia — population 33 within the village and a few thousand around it — would proudly tell you that they didn't have slavery in ...

More than two centuries ago, an enslaved man named Gabriel was making final preparations to lead a revolt in Richmond that he hoped would spur the end of slavery. He was smart, he was armed and he was ...

Gabriel's failed insurrection conspiracy of 1800 is one of the most widely studied slave uprisings in U.S. history. When analyzing slave resistance, historians often assume an automatic sense of ...

There is no telling what you will find searching through old Carroll County records. Recently the name Bernard M. Campbell popped up in books dating to the 1850s and early 1860s. Following Campbell’s ...