Below is a link to the second installment in a series of blogs related to the "To Be Sold" exhibition, which opens on October 27 at the Library of Virginia. Each post is based on court cases found in LVA's Local Records collection and involving slave traders. These suits provide insight into the motivation of individuals to get into the slave trading business as well as details on how they carried out their operations. Even more remarkably, these records document stories of enslaved individuals purchased in Virginia and taken hundreds of miles away by sea and by land to be sold in the Deep South.

Today's blog follows the story of a slave named Elizabeth (also known as Lizzy or Betsey) found in Norfolk County Chancery Cause 1853-008, Thomas Williams vs. William N. Ivy, etc.
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2014/10/08/to-be-sold-elizabeths-story/



John


John G. Deal
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Library of Virginia
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