Virginia Kept Losing Its Female Slaves For Months — What They Finally Found Is Impossible

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27 women. That's the number recorded in a private ledger discovered in 1978, hidden behind a false panel in what was once the Tidewater District Magistrate's Office in southeastern Virginia. 27 enslaved women who disappeared from various plantations between March and November of 1847. Their absences carefully documented by someone who went to great... Read More