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



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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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