Norfolk Virginia (Black America)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC); Arcadia Publishing
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780738505640
Subjects: General; History - General History; History: American
First sentence: In the years before the Civil War, a great majority of Africans remained enslaved, but many were becoming free-some by birth, many others as a result of the 1782 Virginia law that permitted the owner of an enslaved African to free any person s/he chose simply by a process of declaration, which was similar to a transfer of deed.