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Latest "Fit to Print" blog from the Virginia Newspaper Project
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Vanity Fair author, William Makepeace Thackeray.
The Richmond slave trade.
A small ad in an 1853 Richmond Virginia Newspaper.
Paintings by British artist Eyre Crowe.

Read the intriguing Fit to Print article by the Virginia Newspaper Project that ties together these seemingly disparate threads and how it supports the provocative "To Be Sold" exhibit at the Library of Virginia

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/fit-to-print/2014/10/17/a-newspaper-connection-slaves-waiting-for-auction-thackeray-crowe-check-in/


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