This traveling exhibit from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture explores the lives of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the first captive Africans in 1619 to the abolition of slavery in 1865. Through powerful objects and first-person accounts, visitors will discover how Virginia’s people of color achieved their freedom and persevered within a legal system that recognized them as free but not equal.
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Isle of Wight County Exhibit 103 Main Street Smithfield, VA 23430
