I have a collateral ancestor, Rose Reynolds, who owned at least five slaves in her lifetime in Norfolk, VA. Rose purchased my ggg grandmother, her sister, and freed her. When Rose died intestate, my ggg grandfather became the executor of her estate. Rose's children were being educated in Baltimore at the time and could not return to Virginia to claim their inheritance which included personal household items and three slaves. When the estate was liquidated, the slaves were sold. I have yet to establish a personal/familial link to these three slaves, so I cannot say that Rose never owned slaves for profit. I'm currently compiling data on free black slave owners in Norfolk. Unfortunately, the only data I'm finding on them, to link them with their slaves, is at the moment of emancipation. Many of the emancipators were related to the slaves they freed, thus would present a skewed picture of the nature of slave ownership. -my half a cent... Hollis Gentry __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html