Overview
Hundreds of Black Virginians risked their lives fighting for independence and freedom only for their very existence to lie neglected for centuries—until now.
Long buried in courthouses archives, pension files, and family memories, the stories of these Patriots span the plantations and communities surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s Albemarle to the battlefields and supply lines that shaped the new American nation. These enslaved and free men and women served in militias, labored for the Continental cause, and petitioned for freedom in the war’s aftermath.
Surveying the late eighteenth century through generations of descendants who fought to preserve this legacy, historian and genealogist Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy reveals how the Black Patriots of Central Virginia shaped American independence.
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