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Slave Inventory Database in Fairfax County: Crossing the 1870 Gap
What Maddy McCoy and others learned when they went page by page through more than a century of Fairfax County paperwork.
Harriet Jacobs Alive (sort of)
An evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.
Julia Wilbur's Alexandria: The "Slave Pen"
On the first morning after the Union occupation of Alexandria, May 22, 1861, Michigan troops came upon what had been a flourishing slave-trading establishment on Duke Street, less than a mile from the Potomac River.