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African American History
A–Cooper
- A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, In the State of Virginia (1796)
- Abrams, Joseph (1791–1854)
- Adams, John H. (ca. 1848–1934)
- Addison, Lucy (1861–1937)
- African American Legislators in Virginia (1867–1899)
- African American Militia Units in Virginia (1870–1899)
- African Americans and Politics in Virginia (1865–1902)
- Africans, Virginia's First
- Aggie, Mary (fl. 1728–1731)
- Aiken, Archibald M. (1888–1971)
- Allan, Edgar (1842–1904)
- Allen, Joseph (ca. 1836–after 1905)
- Anderson, Peyton E. (ca. 1857–1950)
- Andrews, William H. (b. ca. 1839)
- Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–ca. 1714)
- Angela (fl. 1619–1625)
- Anti-Lynching Law of 1928
- Archer, Edinboro (ca. 1849–1907)
- Arlington House
- Armfield, John (1797–1871)
- Armistead, John M. (1852–1929)
- Armstrong, Samuel Chapman (1839–1893)
- Ash, William H. (1859–1908)
- Ashe, Arthur (1943–1993)
- Associates of Dr. Bray
- Atwell, Joseph S. (1831–1881)
- Banks, W. Lester (1911–1986)
- Barrett, James D. (1833–1903)
- Baskervill, Britton (1863–1892)
- Bassette, Andrew W. E. (1857–1942)
- Batte, Archibald (d. by April 12, 1830)
- Bayne, Thomas (ca. 1824–1888)
- Bazile, Leon M. (1890–1967)
- Benga, Ota (ca. 1883–1916)
- Billy (fl. 1770s–1780s)
- Billy or Blind Billy (ca. 1805–1855)
- Binga, Anthony, Jr. (1843–1919)
- Black Baptists in Virginia (1865–1902)
- Black Confederates
- Black, Aline E. (1906–1974)
- Black, Leonard A. (1820–1883)
- Blackwell, James H. (ca. 1864–1931)
- Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861)
- Bland, Edward D. (1848–1927)
- Bland, J. W. D. (1844–1870)
- Boland, Robert J. (1850–1918)
- Bolling, Phillip S. (ca. 1849–1892)
- Bolling, Samuel P. (1819–1900)
- Bouldin, Wood (1838–1911)
- Bowler, J. Andrew (1862–1935)
- Bowser, James (b. ca. 1730)
- Bowser, Mary Richards (fl. 1846–1867)
- Bowser, Rosa L. Dixon (1855–1931)
- Bragg, George F. (1863–1940)
- Branch, Tazewell (1828–1925)
- Breedlove, William (ca. 1820–1871)
- Brisby, William H. (1836–1916)
- Brodnax, William H. (ca. 1786–1834)
- Brooks, Albert R. (c. 1817–1881)
- Brooks, Lucy Goode (1818–1900)
- Brooks, Robert Peel (1853–1882)
- Brown, Abram (d. 1840)
- Brown, Edward W. (d. 1929)
- Brown, George O. (1852–1910)
- Brown, Goodman (1840–1929)
- Brown, Henry Box (1815 or 1816–1897)
- Brown, John (1800–1859)
- Brown, John (ca. 1830–after 1900)
- Brown, Thomas H. (1864–1952)
- Browne, William Washington (1849–1897)
- Bryan, C. Braxton (1852–1922)
- Burns, Anthony (1834–1862)
- Burns, Anthony, The Trial of (1854)
- Butt, Israel L. (1848–1916)
- Canada, David (fl. 1867–1869)
- Carter, James B. (ca. 1816–1870)
- Carter, Peter Jacob (1845–1886)
- Carter, Willis M. (1852–1902)
- Cary, Lott (ca. 1780–1828)
- Chambers, Lenoir (1891–1970)
- Charity, Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood (1924–1996)
- Charlottesville during the Civil War
- Christian, James S. (1918–1982)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Civil War in Virginia, The American
- Clark, Matt (ca. 1844–after 1892)
- Clotel; or the President's Daughter (1853)
- Cohabitation Act of 1866
- Cole, George William (d. after June 10, 1880)
- Cole, Sally Cottrell (d. 1875)
- Coleman, Asa (d. after February 24, 1893)
- Collins, Johnson (1847–1906)
- Colonial Virginia
- Colored Farmers' Alliance and Cooperative Union of Virginia, The
- Colored Shiloh Baptist Association
- Colson, William (1805–1835)
- Commodore, Aaron (1819 or 1820–1892)
- Confederate Morale during the Civil War
- Conference with President Andrew Johnson (June 16, 1865)
- Confessions of Nat Turner, The (1831)
- Confessions of Nat Turner, The (1967)
- Connor, Miles (d. 1893)
- Constitutional Convention, Virginia (1901–1902)
- Cook, Fields (ca. 1817–1897)
- Cooper, Esther Georgia Irving (1881–1970)
Copeland–Limber
- Copeland, Walter S. (1856–1928)
- Corbin, Percy C. (1888–1952)
- Corprew, E. G. (ca. 1830–1881)
- Cox, Earnest Sevier (1880–1966)
- Cox, Henry (1832–after 1910)
- Cox, Joseph (ca. 1835–1880)
- Crater, Battle of the
- Crawford, Robert B. (1895–1973)
- Cromwell, John Wesley (1846–1927)
- Crump, Josiah (ca. 1838–1890)
- Curry, J. L. M. (1825–1903)
- Custis, Mary Lee Fitzhugh (1788–1853)
- Dabbs, Isaac (ca. 1848–after 1910)
- Dabney, John (ca. 1824–1900)
- Daniels, Edward D. (1828–1916)
- Danville Civil Rights Demonstrations of 1963
- Danville Riot (1883)
- Davis, Cephas L. (ca. 1839–1907)
- Davis, D. Webster (1862–1913)
- Davis, Jackson (1882–1947)
- Davis, John H. (d. 1896)
- Davis, Marion E. (1862–1946)
- Davis, Noah (1804–1867)
- Davis, William Roscoe (d. 1904)
- Dawson, John M. (1829–1913)
- Dean, Jennie Serepta (1848–1913)
- Deed of Gift, Robert Carter III's
- Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties
- Delaney, McDowell (1844–1926)
- Delany, Martin R. (1812–1885)
- Desegregation in Higher Education
- Desegregation in Public Schools
- Dillard, J. H. (1856–1940)
- Disfranchisement
- Ditcher, Jack (b. ca. 1772)
- Dodson, Amos A. (1856–1888)
- Dungee, Shed (1831–1900)
- Dungey, Jesse (ca. 1820–1884)
- Dyer, Carrie Victoria (1839–1921)
- Edmundson, Isaac (ca. 1840–1927)
- Edwards, Ballard T. (ca. 1828–1881)
- Edwards, Tommy (1922–1969)
- Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
- Enslaved House Servants
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (1909–1920)
- Evans, Joseph P. (1835–1889)
- Evans, William D. (ca. 1831–1900)
- Evans, William W. (d. 1892)
- Ex Parte Virginia (1880)
- Family Life during the Civil War
- Farmer, James (1920–1999)
- Farmville Protests of 1963
- Farrar, Joseph E. (1830–1892)
- Faulcon, William (1841–by 1904)
- Fayerman, George (d. 1890)
- Ferguson, John E. (1810–1859)
- Fields, James A. (1844–1903)
- Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- First Military District
- Flemings, L. R. (d. 1937)
- Fort Monroe during the Civil War
- Fossett, Joseph (1780–1858)
- Foster, Kitty (ca. 1790–1863)
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Franklin, A. Q. (1852–1924)
- Free Blacks during the Civil War
- Free Blacks in Colonial Virginia
- Freedmen's Education in Virginia, 1861–1870
- Fugitive Slave Laws
- Fuller, Thomas (ca. 1710–1790)
- Gabriel's Conspiracy (1800)
- Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers
- Great Awakening in Virginia, The
- Great Migration, The
- Green, Armistead (d. 1892)
- Green, Charles C. et al. v. County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia
- Hancock, Gordon Blaine (1884–1970)
- Harris, Alfred W. (1853–1920)
- Harris, J. D. (ca. 1833–1884)
- Hemings, Sally (1773–1835)
- Hercules (b. ca. 1754)
- Hill, Oliver W. (1907–2007)
- Hinton, Corinna (1835–1887)
- Holmes, Joseph R. (ca. 1838–1869)
- Hunt, Gilbert (ca. 1780–1863)
- Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Jackson, Giles B. (1853–1924)
- Jackson, Luther Porter (1892–1950)
- Jamestown Settlement, Early
- Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907
- Jefferson, Thomas and His Family
- Jennings, Paul (1799–1874)
- Johnson, Henry (1842–1922)
- Jones, Peter K. (ca. 1834–1895)
- Jones, Sarah Garland Boyd (1866–1905)
- Judge, Oney (ca. 1773–1848)
- Kelso, Samuel F. (ca. 1825–1880)
- Known World, The (2003)
- Labor in Virginia during the Twentieth Century
- Lafayette, James (ca. 1748–1830)
- Langston, John Mercer (1829–1897)
- Lee, Robert E. and Slavery
- Lee, Robert E. in Memory
- Lewis Miller's Virginia Slavery Drawings
- Limber, Jim
Lindsey–York
- Lindsey, Lewis (1843–1908)
- Lipscomb, James F. (1830–1893)
- Lost Cause, The
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Lumpkin's Jail
- Lynching in Virginia
- Lynching of John Henry James (1898), The
- Lyons, Isaiah L. (1843–1871)
- Mahone, William (1826–1895)
- Manly, Ralza M. (1822–1897)
- Martin, Henry (1826–1915)
- Massive Resistance
- McPherson, Christopher (ca. 1763–1817)
- Minkins, Shadrach (d. 1875)
- Mitchell, John Jr. (1863–1929)
- Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
- Morgan, Peter G. (1817–1890)
- Moseley, William P. (ca. 1819 or 1820–1890)
- Moss, Frank (d. by August 6, 1884)
- Moton School Strike and Prince Edward County School Closings
- Moton, Robert Russa (1867–1940)
- Mount Vernon, Archaeology at
- Narratives of Henry Box Brown, The
- Negro in Virginia, The (1940)
- Negro Organization Society
- Nelson, Edward (fl. 1867–1869)
- Nickens, Armistead S. (1836–1906)
- Nickson, John (fl. 1687)
- Norton, Daniel M., later Daniel McNorton (d. 1918)
- Norton, F. S. (d. 1893)
- Norton, Robert (d. by October 17, 1898)
- Paige, R. G. L. (1846–1904)
- Pamphlet, Gowan (fl. 1779–1807)
- Peirce, William (d. btw. 1645 and 1647)
- Perkins, Caesar (1839–1910)
- Perkins, Fountain M. (1816 or 1817–1896)
- Petersburg Convention of March 14, 1881
- Plecker, Walter Ashby (1861–1947)
- Poll Tax
- Poplar Forest
- Public School System in Virginia, Establishment of the
- Racial Integrity Laws (1924–1930)
- Refugees during the Civil War
- Revolt, Nat Turner's (1831)
- Roanoke Weekly Press
- Robert Edward Lee Sculpture
- Robinson, John (1825 or 1826–1908)
- Rosenwald Schools
- Ruffin, R. D. (1842–1916)
- Ruffner, William Henry (1824–1908)
- Runaway Slaves and Servants in Colonial Virginia
- Russell, James Solomon (1857–1935)
- Saltville during the Civil War
- Seaton, George Lewis (ca. 1822–1881)
- Slave Clothing and Adornment in Virginia
- Slave Housing in Virginia
- Slave Literacy and Education in Virginia
- Slave Sales
- Slave Ship, The (1924)
- Slave Ships and the Middle Passage
- Slave Trade, Eyre Crowe's Images of the
- Slavery at the University of Virginia
- Slavery during the Civil War
- Sound in Colonial Virginia
- Sound in Jefferson's Virginia
- Southern Claims Commission in Virginia, The
- Spencer, Anne (1882–1975)
- Stratford Hall
- Tait, Bacon (1796–1871)
- Taylor, James T. S. (1840–1918)
- Teamoh, George (1818–after 1887)
- The Abolition of Slavery in Virginia
- The Republican Party of Virginia in the Nineteenth Century
- Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, The
- Thomas's Administrator v. Bettie Thomas Lewis (1892)
- Toler, Burwell (ca. 1822–1880)
- Transatlantic Slave Trade, The
- Turpin, Henry (1836–1908)
- Twenty-Slave Law
- Underground Railroad in Virginia
- Underwood, John C. (1809–1873)
- Union Occupation of Charlottesville (1865)
- Unionism in Virginia during the Civil War
- United States Colored Troops, The
- Vagrancy Act of 1866
- Van Lew, Elizabeth L. (1818–1900)
- Venable, Charles S. (1827–1900)
- Veney, Bethany (ca. 1815–1916)
- Virginia Baptist State Convention
- Virginia Slave Narratives
- Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832, The
- Virginia Soldiers (Confederate) during the Civil War
- Walker, Maggie Lena (1864–1934)
- Walker, Wyatt Tee (1929–2018)
- Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)
- Washington, George and Slavery
- Washington, John M. (1838–1918)
- Watson, John (d. December 6, 1869)
- Westmoreland Slave Plot (1687)
- Wilder, Lawrence Douglas (1931– )
- Wilson, Joseph T. (1837–1890)
- Woman Suffrage in Virginia
- Women during the Civil War
- Woodson, Carter G. (1875–1950)
- York County Conspiracy (1661)