As recently as a couple of years ago, most people in Brownsburg, Virginia — population 33 within the village and a few thousand around it — would proudly tell you that they didn't have slavery in ...

BLACKSBURG — The second-oldest structure on Virginia Tech’s campus is now named for an enslaved family who worked the land around it. The Fraction Family House was officially named by the board of ...

It was good to learn that the Charlottesville-based Virginia Humanities organization has created virtual tours of the living quarters of enslaved people from the state’s past and made them easily ...

When Fred Miller purchased a historic house in Virginia, he was not expecting to unlock hidden chapters of his own family’s history. Watch this story on 60 Minutes aboutthe large house in southern ...

Organizations have fought to uncover the histories of the cabins and preserve the properties as historic landmarks. “I’ve come across slave dwellings with many uses like rental spaces, she sheds, man ...

Andy Ott has always loved rummaging through old things, ghost towns, discarded jalopies, battered Tom Swift novels. His Virginia Beach home could probably stand forever by the sheer number of history ...

The House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution Friday expressing "profound regret" for Virginia's role in the slave trade, a significant act of contrition by a body that used to start the ...

This “problem” was met with two opposing reactions. Some slave owners began an intentional process to set free increasing numbers of those slaves. At the end of the American Revolution, only a handful ...

The status of blacks in Virginia slowly changed over the last half of the 17th century. The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave. In ...

The project included descendants, University of Virginia graduate students, historians, Rockbridge County high schoolers and a 5-year-old who dug... Virginia museum works to uncover town's history of ...