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Virginia Center for Digital History: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

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A digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves in the period before the American Civil War. In addition, there are historical documents related to slavery. Gives the option of browsing or doing a detailed search. Includes some teaching materials.

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Concepts
fugitive slaves, slave resistance
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Additional Tags
escaped slaves, indentured servants, primary source documents, runaway slaves, slave life, slave punishments, slavery system, fugitive slave act of 1793, ohio h.ci.4, slave advertisements, underground railroad, virginia runaways
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information