It is one of the least commonly known facts about the Civil War: there were many, many free negroes living in slaveholding states before the Emancipation Procla

Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jeffe

"This narrative nonfiction book contains stories of people of African origin who were never enslaved, born free, or who obtained liberty through court proceedin