Location: FAUQUIER, Virginia

  1. Freedom in Fauquier

    Date(s): 1820 to 1830 Location:  Tag(s): African-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery 

    Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Fauquier County was a county with many African American slaves. However, Fauquier County was a county with a few freed African Americans. In 1820, the Fauquier County Census counted 11,167 slaves and 507 freed African Americans. In 1830, there were 12,612 slaves and only 621 freed African Americans. Therefore, in those 10 years, the number of slaves...

  2. Virginia Gazette: Epic of a Small-Time Newspaper

    Date(s): January 7, 1826 Location:  Tag(s): African-Americans, Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Race-Relations, Slavery 

    A man swept into a dimly lit tavern and muttered, "Whiskey," in a hoarse voice before collapsing into a creaky wooden chair. On the table next to him lay a folded newspaper with the day's date. He snatched up the paper, the Virginia Gazette, and began leafing through it. He nodded to himself when he read that in North Carolina some planters held a contest to see whose slaves could pick...