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Pages: 172
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Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African Americ
Five for Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Eugene L. Meyer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-01 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized
Alexandria County, Virginia
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: Dorothy S. Provine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher:

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"The following publication consists of abstracts of entries in the registers for free blacks for Alexandria County (now Arlington County) Virginia for the perio
Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia
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Pages: 179
Authors: Ric Murphy
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In 1619, a group of thirty-two African men, women and children arrived on the shores of Virginia. They had been kidnapped in the royal city of Kabasa, Angola, a
African American Historic Places
Language: en
Pages: 628
Authors: National Register of Historic Places
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-07-13 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American