I have a will from original owners of my home, listing slaves (first names only) their 'value', and that they were to be allowed their choice of whom they would be 'sold' to. This from the family records of the original family living at "Soldiers Retreat", Botetourt County, VA. Would this be of interest?
Will on file in Finncastle, VA. Daisy Boyd [log in to unmask]
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Daisy Boyd
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On Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Alyson L. Taylor-White wrote:
> Hi VA-HISTers!
> Thought some of you might find this of interest.
>
> What: The Virginia Historical Society (VHS)
> launches Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names.
>
> When: Thursday, September 15, 2011
>
> Where: The Unknown No Longer database is
> accessible via the VHS website, www.vahistorical.org (http://www.vahistorical.org).
>
> Who: The creation of the Unknown No Longer
> database was made possible by a $100,000 grant from Dominion Resources
> and the Dominion Foundation. This grant was awarded to the Virginia
> Historical Society in January 2011.
>
> Why: Unknown No Longer makes important
> African American resources available to researchers across the globe
> free of charge.
>
> The database includes names of enslaved African Americans culled from
> letters, bonds, wills, deeds, court records, inventory lists,
> receipts, registers, and other paper-based materials in the Virginia
> Historical Society collections. Unknown No Longer is searchable
> through the use of a variety of keywords, such as name, gender,
> location, occupation, and plantation.
>
> The VHS is launching this free educational resource with more than
> 1,500 names, higher than the 1,000 names that the VHS anticipated
> being in the database at its launch this month. Each name entered is
> connected to the digital copy of the original primary source document
> from which it was extracted. At this point, there are approximately
> 250 different digital images in the database.
>
> Unknown No Longer is unique in design and approach. Existing databases
> profile specific plantations and ship manifests with African names of
> their human cargo or other forced migratory information. Unknown No
> Longeris the first database to include names that relate back to
> plantations or places of work across all of slaveholding Virginia that
> were extracted from a huge collection of unrelated documents.
>
> The database does not contain names that may appear in published
> sources at the society or in unpublished sources located in museums
> and libraries other than the VHS.
>
> It could take years to scour the more than eight million documents in
> the VHS collection. Rather than wait to find all of the names of
> enslaved people, the VHS is launching Unknown No Longer as a work in
> progress. Information in the database will be updated as relevant
> material in the VHS manuscript collection is processed and new
> documents come into the society’s possession.
> Alyson L. Taylor-White
> 804-920-2783
>
>
>
>
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