How would one access the collection online? I'm still trying to track
down a slave probably taken south overland starting at Richmond in
1834. Wonder if this would help.

Hank Trent
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On 11/14/16, Janice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The LVA has been processing a collection of papers relating to slavery and
> ownership.  Those few that I worked on (as a volunteer transcriptionist)
> included a couple of account books of traders' routes, giving travel route,
> names of the slaves and family members (if sold together), former owners and
> purchases/expenses per slave by name, incurred by the trader during the
> trip. They may yet have materials untranscribed but available to the
> volunteers online as photocopies of the originals. The collection is worth
> checking out.
>
> Janice Armstrong

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