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FGS 2019 Conference Speaker Shout Out: Leslie Anderson, MSLS, presents, “The ‘Free Negro’ Dilemma in Virginia: Records for Blacks and Whites”

August 22, 2019 by leslie1863

FGS 2019 Conference Speaker Shout Out: Leslie Anderson, MSLS, presents, “The ‘Free Negro’ Dilemma in Virginia: Records for Blacks and Whites”

Explore documents related to activities of daily life in Virginia that provide valuable information between census years for both free and enslaved.

Join Leslie on Friday, August 23 at 2:30pm, and check out her other sessions!

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While researching the lives of my great-great-grandfather Edward R. Pitt and his brother William Thomas Pitt of Norfolk County, Virginia, I found fascinating (and sometimes disturbing) details about the civilian and military experiences of those who served in the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry.

The regiment included free men, freedmen, freedom-seekers and white officers from the United States and abroad. It was organized at Camp Hamilton, Virginia in 1863, attached to Fortress Monroe, Virginia in 1864, and mustered out at Brazos Santiago, Texas in 1866.

Tell the story. Expand the legacy.

Leslie Anderson, MSLS

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