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The collection is called Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative and can be accessed at this link: http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan/
There are additional pre-Civil War era African American related records in need of transcription found at our Making History: Transcribe site - http://www.virginiamemory.com/transcribe/
To learn more about Virginia Untold, go to our Out of the Box blog site - http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2016/02/03/virginia-untold-collection/
Greg Crawford
Local Records Program Manager
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219-8000
-----Original Message-----
From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hank Trent
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 11:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Mack Curry
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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