Often it takes tenacity and curiosity to recognize records that have special historical value. An eagle-eyed archivist processing hundreds of dusty volumes removed from the Augusta County courthouse basement identified a seemingly mundane ledger that provides insight into industrial slavery in antebellum Virginia. See her discovery in this week’s Out of the Box blog from the archives at the Library of Virginia. http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html