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How a Louisiana Plantation Museum Is Helping Us Think about Our Slavery Content

This blog post was written by Miranda Bennett, assistant editor of Encyclopedia Virginia. John Little, who escaped to Canada from bondage in Tennessee, told an interviewer, “Tisn’t he who has… Read More»

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Updating the Daughters

Back on August 30, I posted an open letter to the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in response to their complaints about our entry on the… Read More»

Around the State, Inside the Encyclopedia, Virginia History

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United Daughters of the Confederacy & White Supremacy

Two days ago, Ginger R. Stephens, the president of the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, wrote a letter to her “ladies.” “It has been brought to… Read More»

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Different, but How Different?

We received a comment from Robert Glisson today on an old blog post about slavery. This comment calls to mind a whole “debate” over whether Irish indentured servants were, in fact,… Read More»

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Crazy Bet & Mary Jane

In Season 2, Episode 6, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe tells the story of Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Richards Bowser, two mysterious women with deep connections to the… Read More»

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A Most Savage Tale

In Season 2, Episode 5, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe investigates the life of Thomas Savage, a Jamestown colonist who, as a boy, was given over to the Indians.… Read More»

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Keeping House with Marion Harland

In Season 2, Episode 4, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe reads Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery (1871) by Marion Harland. The Virginian brought cookbooks to the… Read More»

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Another Man’s Property

In Season 2, Episode 3, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe marvels at Anthony Johnson, a slaveholder on the Eastern Shore who, earlier in life, had been known only as… Read More»

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A Monstrous Tongue of Flame

In Season 2, Episode 2, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe remembers one of the strangest and most heartbreaking of Civil War battles: the Battle of the Crater. It began… Read More»

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Her Body Was Not Her Own

In Season 2, Episode 1, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe introduces us to Carrie Buck, the plaintiff in the notorious Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) that authorized Buck’s… Read More»

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