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''[[United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]]  [[Virginia]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]]  [[Virginia_African_Americans|African Americans]]'' [[Image:{{Virginiaslavesale}}]] [[Image:Slavery.JPG|thumb|right|200px]]  
''[[United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]]  [[Virginia]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]]  [[Virginia_African_Americans|African Americans]]'' [[Image:{{Virginiaslavesale}}]] [[Image:Slavery.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Slavery.JPG]]  


== Strategies  ==
== Strategies  ==


[[Image:Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg]] African American research in Virginia can be divided into two general time periods - '''before '''and '''after '''the '''Civil War'''.  
[[Image:Africa ethnic groups 1996.jpg|thumb|right|300px]] African American research in Virginia can be divided into two general time periods - '''before '''and '''after '''the '''Civil War'''.  


<br>This Wiki page describes research strategies, and major sources of information about African American families from [[Virginia]]. As you read this Wiki page, also study the [[African American Research]] Wiki pages, which will help you understand more strategies, and the contents and uses of other African American genealogical records.  
<br>This Wiki page describes research strategies, and major sources of information about African American families from [[Virginia]]. As you read this Wiki page, also study the [[African American Research]] Wiki pages, which will help you understand more strategies, and the contents and uses of other African American genealogical records.  
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<br>By '''1860''', when there were nearly twice as many slaves in the state as there had been 70 years earlier, counties with more than '''10,000''' slaves were [[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle]], [[Bedford County, Virginia|Bedford]], [[Campbell County, Virginia|Campbell]], [[Caroline County, Virginia|Caroline]], [[Dinwiddie County, Virginia|Dinwiddie]], [[Fauquier County, Virginia|Fauquier]], [[Halifax County, Virginia|Halifax]], [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Louisa County, Virginia|Louisa]], [[Mecklenburg County, Virginia|Mecklenburg]], and [[Pittsylvania County, Virginia|Pittsylvania]]. Counties with more than '''7500''' slaves were: [[Amelia County, Virginia|Amelia]], [[Brunswick County, Virginia|Brunswick]], [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham]], [[Charlotte County, Virginia|Charlotte]], [[Chesterfield County, Virginia|Chesterfield]], [[Hanover County, Virginia|Hanover]], [[Norfolk County, Virginia|Norfolk]], and [[Spotsylvania County, Virginia|Spotsylvania]].<ref name="no" />  
<br>By '''1860''', when there were nearly twice as many slaves in the state as there had been 70 years earlier, counties with more than '''10,000''' slaves were [[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle]], [[Bedford County, Virginia|Bedford]], [[Campbell County, Virginia|Campbell]], [[Caroline County, Virginia|Caroline]], [[Dinwiddie County, Virginia|Dinwiddie]], [[Fauquier County, Virginia|Fauquier]], [[Halifax County, Virginia|Halifax]], [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Louisa County, Virginia|Louisa]], [[Mecklenburg County, Virginia|Mecklenburg]], and [[Pittsylvania County, Virginia|Pittsylvania]]. Counties with more than '''7500''' slaves were: [[Amelia County, Virginia|Amelia]], [[Brunswick County, Virginia|Brunswick]], [[Buckingham County, Virginia|Buckingham]], [[Charlotte County, Virginia|Charlotte]], [[Chesterfield County, Virginia|Chesterfield]], [[Hanover County, Virginia|Hanover]], [[Norfolk County, Virginia|Norfolk]], and [[Spotsylvania County, Virginia|Spotsylvania]].<ref name="no" />  


Edmund S. Morgan's ''American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia'' (1975) ({{FHL|488327|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 H6m}}) is considered one of the best histories of enslaved blacks in Virginia.<br>
Edmund S. Morgan's ''American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia'' (1975) ({{FHL|488327|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 H6m}}) is considered one of the best histories of enslaved blacks in Virginia.
 
PBS's interactive [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html Reconstruction: The Second Civil War] discusses what life was like for freed slaves and their descendants in the nineteenth century.  


==== Legislation  ====
==== Legislation  ====
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[http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/laws.html The Geography of Slavery in Virginia] includes a list of Virginia slave laws, references to slaves in the House of Burgesses Journals, and other documents.  
[http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/laws.html The Geography of Slavery in Virginia] includes a list of Virginia slave laws, references to slaves in the House of Burgesses Journals, and other documents.  
 
== Records  ==
== Records  ==


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===== Runaway Slaves  =====
===== Runaway Slaves  =====


[[Image:Runaway slave ad.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Runaway slave ad.jpg]] Names of hundreds of runaway slaves, their descriptions, owners, and ages appeared in '''newspapers'''. They have been published and can be found in: <br>  
[[Image:Runaway slave ad.jpg|thumb|right|300px]] Names of hundreds of runaway slaves, their descriptions, owners, and ages appeared in '''newspapers'''. They have been published and can be found in: <br>  


*Windley, Lathan A., comp. ''Runaway Slave Advertisements''. 4 vols. (Virginia and North Carolina) Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. {{FHL|419052|item|disp=FHL Book 975 F2wL}}. For Virginia, see volume one.
*Windley, Lathan A., comp. ''Runaway Slave Advertisements''. 4 vols. (Virginia and North Carolina) Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. {{FHL|419052|item|disp=FHL Book 975 F2wL}}. For Virginia, see volume one.
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The Library of Virginia has prepared a list of [http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/AA_newspaper_holdings.pdf African-American Newspapers], such as the ''Afro-American and the Richmond Planet'', which they hold.  
The Library of Virginia has prepared a list of [http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/AA_newspaper_holdings.pdf African-American Newspapers], such as the ''Afro-American and the Richmond Planet'', which they hold.  
PBS's interactive [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html Reconstruction: The Second Civil War] discusses what life was like for freed slaves and their descendants in the nineteenth century.


==== Later Migrations Out of Virginia  ====
==== Later Migrations Out of Virginia  ====
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