Anne, and others,

The city of Petersburg created a brochure highlighting the city's African
American heritage, with a map to specific sites, such as the historic
churches, People's Memorial Cemetery (across Crater Road from Blandford
Cemetery), etc. I don't know exactly who to contact or whether the brochures
still are readily available, but I would imagine that a check of the city's
Web site would give contact information for the city manager, mayor, or
someone else who might be able to respond.

As for Leonard Grimes, off the top of my head, he was a slave in northern
Virginia who was arrested and imprisoned for Underground Railroad activities.
He then went to Boston and became pastor of a leading African American Baptist
congregation. He was a man of consequence and was prominent in such
controversies as the battle over school segregation in the 1850s and the
arrest and return to Virginia of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

John


On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:24:35 -0500 Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Is there any display in Petersburg on this
> project? At the Battlefield
> Park? At or planned for the Library?
>
> My students are a home school family in
> Petersburg. For the last two months
> of last year, we read from the autobiography of
> Frederick Douglas,  to
> learn about his life as a slave. Among others,
> we will study Harriet Tubman
> in February. If there is something we can visit
> in Petersburg to learn more
> about slavery, it would make a nice field trip
> in February.
>
> Who was Leonard Grimes?
>
>                                  Anne
>
>

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