A Guide to the Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers, 2019-2022 Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers 54022

A Guide to the Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers, 2019-2022

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Accession number
54022
Title
Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers, 2019-2022
Physical Characteristics
2.7 cubic feet (6 boxes) and 1 website .
Creator
Pam Smith
Location
Library of Virginia
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

The Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers, September 2019-November 2022. Accession 54022. Organization records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Pam Smith, Falls Church, Virginia.

Biographical Information

The Richard Adams House was constructed about 1790 by Richard Adams (d. 1802) on property purchased from the John Coles family. The property was inherited by his son, Richard Adams, Jr. (1760-1817), and later by Richard Adams, III, who sold it to Loftin N. Ellett in 1825. Ellett died in 1865 and his executors sold the house in 1866 to Bishop John McGill of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond. The Adams-Taylor House was built in 1812 for James Smith on property owned by Richard Adams, Jr. When Smith died in 1817, the house was purchased by Jacob Galt Ege. The house was sold by court order in 1833 to William Palmer (1801-1870). Palmer sold the house to William Taylor in 1859, and Taylor enlarged the house that year. Taylor then sold the house to Richard A. Wilkins in 1860. The Richmond Diocese purchased the house from Wilkins in 1866 and requested that the Sisters of the Visitation establish a monastery and girls' school known as Monte Maria at the Richard Adams House. The Adams-Taylor House became part of the campus in 1880. Later construction on campus included the demolition of the Richard Adams House about 1929. By the 1980s, the Sisters of the Visitation planned to relocate to Hanover County, Virginia. An ecumenical group called Richmond Hill purchased the property in 1987 and operates the site as an urban retreat center.

Scope and Content

The Judy Project: African American History at Richmond Hill research papers, September 2019-November 2022, contains research materials gathered by Pam Smith, resident historian at Richmond Hill, to document the lives and dwelling of enslaved persons at the Richard Adams House and the Adams-Taylor House properties in Richmond, Virginia, now known as Richmond Hill. Papers include articles, birth records, census records and slave schedules, death records, deeds, insurance policies, marriage records, personal correspondence, poems, reports, wills, and related Richmond Hill programming and exhibit materials, as well as the website.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged

Series I: Introduction Series II: Dwelling Series III: Richmond Hill--Reports Series IV: Neighborhood reports Series V: Coles-Adams Series VI: Ellett Series VII: Ege-Palmer-Taylor Series VIII: Wilkins-Judy and her enslavers Series IX: Sister Mildred Dolbear Series X: Descendants-Bijan Bayne Series XI: Descendants Series XII: Research Assistance Series XIII: Davenport Series XIV: General Series XV: Articles

Contents List

Series I: Introduction
Box 1

Introduction contains information on the Judy Project exhibition, including information on owners of the property at what is now Richmond Hill; slavery and enslaved persons at Richmond Hill; and information on the dwellings located at Richmond Hill.

  • Box 1 Folder 1
    A Word About This Research
  • Box 1 Folder 2
    Library of Virginia deed of gift, 12 November 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 3
    Why are we doing this? What's it about? Who benefits?
  • Box 1 Folder 4
    Biographies of property owners at what is now Richmond Hill
  • Box 1 Folder 5
    Slavery in Virginia and slave traders in Richmond
  • Box 1 Folder 6
    "Villas on the Hill: Richmond's Richard Adams and Adams-Taylor Houses, " in Urban Scale Richmond website, 28 June 2019
  • Box 1 Folder 7
    Land ownership of Richmond Hill
  • Box 1 Folder 8
    Enslavement at Richmond Hill property
  • Box 1 Folder 9
    William F. Butler records
  • Box 1 Folder 10
    Black Lives on Richmond Hill: a research project
  • Box 1 Folder 11
    Colonial wills of Henrico County, Virginia, 1737-1781, slave index: some names at Richmond Hill
  • Box 1 Folder 12
    Notes
Series II: Dwelling
Box 1

Dwelling contains information on the archaeological, architectural, and historical research documenting the dwelling of enslaved persons at Richmond Hill, including emails, insurance policies, itineraries, maps, photographs, reports, surveys, and other documents.

  • Box 1 Folder 13
    Took shed--Hermitage
  • Box 1 Folder 14
    Jobie Hill--architect
  • Box 1 Folder 15
    Rehabilitation of the dwelling of enslaved persons
  • Box 1 Folder 16
    Mutual Assurance Society policies
  • Box 1 Folder 17
    Mutual Assurance Society
  • Box 1 Folder 18
    Doug Sanford emails, re: Mutual Assurance Society database, 26 February 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 19
    Historic Building Survey
  • Box 1 Folder 20
    Richard Adams House in Houses of Old Richmond , by Mary Wingfield Scott, pp. 12-15
  • Box 1 Folder 21
    Enslaved craftsmen
  • Box 1 Folder 22
    "For a Black Man Hired to Undo a Confederate Legacy, It Has Not Been Easy, " New York Times , 17 April 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 23
    Keast and Hood Structural Assessment Report, pp. 62-63, 18 December 2017
  • Box 1 Folder 24
    Biblical references to dwellings
  • Box 1 Folder 25
    Historic maps
  • Box 1 Folder 26
    Unearthing Buried Stories exhibit, The Judy Project, Juneteenth 2022
Series III: Richmond Hill--Reports
Box 1

Richmond Hill--Reports contains archaeological and architectural assessments of the dwelling of enslaved persons at Richmond Hill.

  • Box 1 Folder 27
    "Richmond Hill Slave House, " by Jobie Hill, Historic Preservation Architect, Founder of Saving Slave Houses, 15 January 2020
  • Box 1 Folder 28
    "Archaeological Assessment of Cultural Deposits Beneath a Damaged Walkway at Richmond Hill, City of Richmond, Virginia: Management Summary, " by Tim Roberts
  • Box 1 Folder 29
    Virginia Department of Historic Resources archaeological site record, 10 August 2021
  • Box 1 Folder 30
    "Report on Artifact Cataloguing and General Assemblage Analysis, Richmond Hill 2020 Walkway Project, " by Carole Nash, Ph.D., James Madison University, 3 June 2021
  • Box 1 Folder 31
    "Richmond Hill Slave House Structural Assessment Report, " by Springpoint Structural LLC, 4 April 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 32
    "Architectural Evaluation of the Richmodn Hill Brick Outbuilding, " by Douglas W. Sanford, Virginia Slave Housing Project, May 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 33
    "Further Investigation of the Richmond Hill Kitchen-Quarter and Its Relation to the Property's Brick Boundary Walls, " by Douglas W. Sanford, Virginia Slave Housing Project, 26 October 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 34
    Draft update by Tim Roberts, 3 November 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 35
    "Seeking the Unknown: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey of the Quarters and the Cemetery at Richmond Hills, Richmond, VA, " by Paul S. Martin, Martin Archaeology Consulting, 10 March 2023
  • Box 1 Folder 36
    Email correspondence with Gibson Worsham, architect at Glave and Holmes, 8, 11 April 2022
  • Box 1 Folder 37
    Short form agreement for services with Baskervill, architect
Series IV: Neighborhood Reports
Boxes 1-2

Neighborhood Reports contains articles, letters, maps, reports, wills, and other documents concerning the history of Richmond, Virginia, including significant African American sites.

  • Box 1 Folder 38
    "Preliminary Archaeological Investigation of the Lumpkin's Jail Site (44HE1043) Richmond, Virginia, " prepared for the City of Richmond by Matthew R. Laird, Ph.D. James River Institute for Archaeology, May 2006
  • Box 1 Folder 39
    Sentinal on the Hill: Monte Maria and One Hundred Years , pp. 24, 139-143; also tombstone for Earsell H. Jeffers (1897-1985)
  • Box 1 Folder 40
    Ann Carrington House
  • Box 1 Folder 41
    Battle of Bloody Run
  • Box 1 Folder 42
    Letter from Pam Smith, historian at Richmond Hill, to Congressman Donald McEachin regarding teh African American Burial Grounds Network Act, 22 October 2020
  • Box 1 Folder 43
    "Stoney Aims to Lease Shockoe Bottom Site linked to Slavery, " Richmond Times-Dispatch , 20 September 2019
  • Box 1 Folder 44
    Elizabeth Van Lew
  • Box 1 Folder 45
    Elizabeth Draper Mitchell and Maggie Lena Walker
  • Box 2 Folder 1
    Patrick Henry's will
  • Box 2 Folder 2
    Virginia Association of Counties regions
  • Box 2 Folder 3
    "Preliminary History of the Lumpkin's Jail Property "
  • Box 2 Folder 4
    "Giving the Wall: A Tour of African American Historical Sites in Richmond, Virginia, 1619-1860, " by Clifford R. Dickinson, The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, 18 March 2001
Series V: Coles-Adams
Box 2

Coles-Adams contains records regarding members of the Coles and Adams families that owned the properties and were enslavers. Also includes records of enslaved persons at the Coles and Adams properties.

  • Box 2 Folder 5
    Enniscorthy--Coles family home in Albemarle County
  • Box 2 Folder 6
    John Coles (1705-1747)
  • Box 2 Folder 7
    John Coles will, Albemarle County, 1791
  • Box 2 Folder 8
    John Coles estate inventory and appraisal, Chesterfield County, 1816-1817
  • Box 2 Folder 9
    John Coles petition (from Race and Slavery Petitions Project), 1843
  • Box 2 Folder 10
    Walter Coles ca. 1690-1740
  • Box 2 Folder 11
    Walter Coles (b. 1910)
  • Box 2 Folder 12
    Walter Coles email, 18 May 2022
  • Box 2 Folder 13
    Coles Hill and Virginia Uranium, Inc.
  • Box 2 Folder 14
    Isaac Coles (1747-1813)
  • Box 2 Folder 15
    Isaac Coles petition (from Race and Slavery Petitions Project), 1838-1839
  • Box 2 Folder 16
    John Coles II (1745-1808)
  • Box 2 Folder 17
    Coles family
  • Box 2 Folder 18
    Edward Coles (1786-1868)
  • Box 2 Folder 19
    Richard Adams House
  • Box 2 Folder 20
    Richard Adams' ship records--New York Historical Society
  • Box 2 Folder 21
    Richard Adams papers--correspondence, receipts, accounts, indenture, will, 1763-1800
  • Box 2 Folder 22
    Documents relating to Richard Adams and house
  • Box 2 Folder 23
    Adams family papers at the Virginia Historical Society (Virginia Museum of History and Culture)
  • Box 2 Folder 24
    Richard Adams
  • Box 2 Folder 25
    Brazilde Romo records (Free Black)
  • Box 2 Folder 26
    "Runaway ad " for Ralph Chillingsworth, Virginia Gazette , 29 December 1775
  • Box 2 Folder 27
    Richard Adams census record, 1810
  • Box 2 Folder 28
    Richard Adams petition (from the Race and Slavery Petitions Project), 1842
  • Box 2 Folder 29
    Abstracts of deeds for purchase of enslaved persons and property--Henrico County, 1750-1795
  • Box 2 Folder 30
    Ebenezer Adams, Richard Adams, John Adams, Mary Griffin Adams (Minge)
  • Box 2 Folder 31
    Thomas Adams--will and correspondence regarding enslaved persons, 1769-1785
Series VI: Ellett
Boxes 2-3

Ellett contains records regarding members of the Loftin N. Ellett family that purchased the Richard Adams House and were enslavers. Also includes records of persons enslaved by Ellett. Records also contain information of African American families with the last name of Ellett.

  • Box 2 Folder 32
    Loftin Newman Ellett (1797-1865)
  • Box 2 Folder 33
    Loftin Newman Ellett--enslaved person birth records, 1852-1858
  • Box 2 Folder 34
    James B. Ellett (1789-1856)
  • Box 2 Folder 35
    James T. Ellett petition (from Race and Slavery Petitions Project), 1859
  • Box 2 Folder 36
    Mary M. Ellett (Sherman) records
  • Box 2 Folder 37
    Andrew Lewis Ellett census records, 1870, 1880
  • Box 2 Folder 38
    Ann R. Garrett--enslaver of Robert?--census records and slave schedules, 1850, 1860
  • Box 2 Folder 39
    Samuel Ellett (1810-1894)
  • Box 2 Folder 40
    Tazewell Ellett (1856-1914)
  • Box 2 Folder 41
    Tazewell Ellett registration card, 1941
  • Box 2 Folder 42
    Emeline Ellett and family records, 1860-1940
  • Box 2 Folder 43
    Dabney Ellett and Martha Ellett records, 1870-1920
  • Box 2 Folder 44
    David Ellett census record, 1870
  • Box 2 Folder 45
    Walthall family records, 1855, 1948
  • Box 3 Folder 1
    Loftin Ellett slave schedules, 1860
  • Box 3 Folder 2
    Bond of complaint filed by Loftin Ellet, 1860
  • Box 3 Folder 3
    Presidential pardon for Loftin Ellett, 30 June 1865
  • Box 3 Folder 4
    Elletts in 1870 census and Elletts in 1866 city directory
  • Box 3 Folder 5
    Virginia Randolph Ellett
  • Box 3 Folder 6
    Andrew Lewis Ellett
  • Box 3 Folder 7
    Cordey Ellett
  • Box 3 Folder 8
    Dabney Ellett and family
  • Box 3 Folder 9
    Loftin Ellett will recorded 18 December 1865
  • Box 3 Folder 10
    Andrew Lewis Ellett records. 1865-1919
  • Box 3 Folder 11
    Ellett descendants--Sarah Herguner email, 13 November 2020
  • Box 3 Folder 12
    Pleasants Dabney Ellett and family records, 1880-1910
  • Box 3 Folder 13
    Robert Ellett
  • Box 3 Folder 14
    Mary Ellett and family
Series VII: Ege-Palmer-Taylor
Box 3

Ege-Palmer-Taylor contains records regarding members of the Ege, Palmer, and Taylor families that purchased what became known as the Adams-Taylor House and were enslavers. Also includes records of persons enslaved by the Ege, Palmer, and Taylor families. Records also contain information of African American families with the last name of Palmer.

  • Box 3 Folder 15
    Ege family genealogy
  • Box 3 Folder 16
    Ege mansion
  • Box 3 Folder 17
    Jacob Galt Ege
  • Box 3 Folder 18
    Enders family
  • Box 3 Folder 19
    William Palmer (1801-1870)
  • Box 3 Folder 20
    William Palmer census records, 1850, 1860, 1870
  • Box 3 Folder 21
    William H. Palmer (1835-1926)
  • Box 3 Folder 22
    Palmer family (African American)
  • Box 3 Folder 23
    William S. Taylor (1810-1904) and family
  • Box 3 Folder 24
    James D. Taylor and family
  • Box 3 Folder 25
    James Smith will, 23 December 1850
Series VIII: Wilkins--Judy and her enslavers
Boxes 3-4

Wilkins--Judy and her enslavers contains records regarding members of the Wilkins family that purchased what became known as the Adams-Taylor House and were enslavers. Also includes records of persons enslaved by the Wilkins family, including Judy, for whom the Judy Project is named. Records also contain information of African American families with the last name of Wilkins.

  • Box 3 Folder 26
    Notes
  • Box 3 Folder 27
    John Limbrey Wilkins (1710-1747)
  • Box 3 Folder 28
    Edmund Wilkins and family
  • Box 3 Folder 29
    William Wyche Wilkins
  • Box 3 Folder 30
    Douglas Wilkins and family
  • Box 3 Folder 31
    John Douglas Wilkins and family
  • Box 3 Folder 32
    Richard Wilkins (1815-1877) and family
  • Box 3 Folder 33
    William Minge Wilkins
  • Box 3 Folder 34
    Richard Wilkins (1849-1925)
  • Box 3 Folder 35
    Mary Griffin Wilkins (Ervin)
  • Box 3 Folder 36
    Molly Ervin Inge (Crown)
  • Box 3 Folder 37
    Minge-Inge family
  • Box 3 Folder 38
    Wilkins, Inge, Ross, Pattilo, and Kimball families (African American)
  • Box 3 Folder 39
    Margaret Adams Erwin (Inge)
  • Box 3 Folder 40
    Benjamin H. Wilkins
  • Box 3 Folder 41
    Margaret Winston Adams and Mary Griffin Minge
  • Box 4 Folder 1
    Margaret Adams Minge Wilkins and Mary Griffin Wilkins
  • Box 4 Folder 2
    'Search for an Old House in Virginia, ' Virginia Episcopalian , January 1991
  • Box 4 Folder 3
    Judy (Wilkins) for whom the Judy Project is named
  • Box 4 Folder 4
    Thomas "Tom " Wilkins and family
  • Box 4 Folder 5
    Ned Wilkins and Laura Seward Wilkins
  • Box 4 Folder 6
    Wilkins family (African American)
  • Box 4 Folder 7
    Berry Hill plantation--Sankofa's Slavery Data Collection
  • Box 4 Folder 8
    Lucretia Brown
Series IX: Sister Mildred Dolbear
Box 4

Sister Mildred Dolbear contains biographical and genealogical information on Sister Mildred Dolbear, a nun at Monte Maria, the predecessor institution to Richmond Hill. Includes information on racial identity in Catholic organizations and interracial familial relationships.

  • Box 4 Folder 9
    Sister Mildred Dolbear records
  • Box 4 Folder 10
    Father and paternal grandparents
  • Box 4 Folder 11
    Mother and maternal grandparents
  • Box 4 Folder 12
    "You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything African Was Taboo: Black Nuns, Contested Memories, and the 20th Century Struggle to Desegregate U.S. Catholic Religious Life, " by Shannen Dee Williams, Journal of African American History , volume 102, number 2, Spring 2017
  • Box 4 Folder 13
    Robb family petition (Race and Slavery Petitions Project), 1829
  • Box 4 Folder 14
    "Unlocking the Closet of Secrets: Slavery in the City of Mobile, Alabama "
  • Box 4 Folder 15
    Schmidt, Robb, Dolbear
  • Box 4 Folder 16
    Bryant
  • Box 4 Folder 17
    "Robb's Folly: Lost Plazzo of the Garden District, " Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans, 7 April 2017
Series X: Descendants-Bijan Bayne
Box 4

Descendants-Bijan Bayne contains information on the Avent, Shaw, and Wilkins families that descended from enslaved persons enslaved by the Wilkins family highlighting the ancestry of Bijan Bayne. Papers include census records and slave schedules, city directory entries, emails, genealogical records, marriage records, notes, and photographs.

  • Box 4 Folder 18
    Gerald Roer Shaw (father) and Geneva Bertha Halstead (grandmother)
  • Box 4 Folder 19
    Bijan C. Bayne
  • Box 4 Folder 20
    "AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive " and "AfriGeneas Slave Research Forum, " 2002-2003
  • Box 4 Folder 21
    Wilkins family
  • Box 4 Folder 22
    Bijan Bayne email correspondence with Pam Smith, September-October 2021
  • Box 4 Folder 23
    Notes
  • Box 4 Folder 24
    Gerald Shaw (b. 1934)
  • Box 4 Folder 25
    Photograph--Shaw family(?)
  • Box 4 Folder 26
    Wilkins-Avent-Shaw family
Series XI: Descendants
Boxes 4-5

Descendants contains articles, notes, and educational rubrics regarding descendants of enslaved persons and reparations, as well as census records, death records, emails, genealogical records, notes, and wills on the Adams, Brown, Early, Holmes, and Peoples families. Includes an open letter to the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts regarding the site where the Robert E. Lee Monument stood expressing concerns over the site's future.

  • Box 4 Folder 27
    "Engaging Descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites: A Rubric of Best Practices Established by the National Summit on Teaching Slavery, " National Trust for Historic Preservation and African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, 15 October 2018
  • Box 4 Folder 28
    "A Nation Built on the Back of Slavery and Racism, " Yes! magazine, Summer 2015
  • Box 4 Folder 29
    Reparations, 6 October 2021
  • Box 4 Folder 30
    "James Madison's Plantation Vowed to Share Power with Black Descendants. Then Things Blew Up. " Washington Post , 22 April 2022
  • Box 4 Folder 31
    "Montpelier Foundation Chooses New Leaders for Presidential Home, " Culpeper Star Exponent , 25 May 2022
  • Box 4 Folder 32
    "Supreme Court to Consider Virginia Uranium Case that Divides a Rural County, " Washington Post --Coles family, Pittsylvania County, 4 November 2018
  • Box 4 Folder 33
    Notes
  • Box 4 Folder 34
    Email correspondence--Helena Holmes and Carol Dove, 2021
  • Box 4 Folder 34
    Holmes family
  • Box 5 Folder 1
    Early family
  • Box 5 Folder 2
    Earsell Jeffreys; Nora Hicks
  • Box 5 Folder 3
    John Adams family
  • Box 5 Folder 4
    Brown family
  • Box 5 Folder 5
    Catherine Peebles Peoples
  • Box 5 Folder 6
    Open letter to the Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts regarding the future of the former site of the Lee Statue
Series XII: Research Assistance
Box 5

Research Assistance contains articles, census records and slave schedules, genealogical records, marriage records, and other documents providing information on John Holt Rice, as well as the Anderson, Blunk, Finchum, Morton, Rice, and Taylor families.

  • Box 5 Folder 7
    Reverend John Holt Rice and Morton and Rice families
  • Box 5 Folder 8
    Anderson family
  • Box 5 Folder 9
    Blunk and Finchum families
  • Box 5 Folder 10
    Taylor family, including "African-Virginians and the Vernacular Building Tradition in Richmond City, 1790-1860 " by Gregg Kimball, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture volume 4, 1991
Series XIII: Davenport
Box 5

Davenport includes articles, biographies, census records, death records, genealogies, and other records concerning Isaac Davenport, Jr., and family members, as well as information on Davenport and Company. Records concern Davenport's personal and business involvement with slavery.

  • Box 5 Folder 11
    Isaac Davenport, Jr., (1814-1896) and family
  • Box 5 Folder 12
    Davenport and Company
  • Box 5 Folder 13
    National Register of Historic Places--multiple property documentation form
  • Box 5 Folder 14
    Enslaved persons in Richmond listing from Journal of Negro History
  • Box 5 Folder 15
    Isaac Davenport census records and slave schedules, 1850-1880
  • Box 5 Folder 16
    Black Davenports census records, 1870
Series XIV: General
Boxes 5-6

General contains articles, brochures, correspondence, emails, poems, presentations, programs, songs, and other documents regarding Richmond Hill, Shockoe Bottom, education, enslaved persons, racism and antiracism, reparations, religion and spirituality, and other topics.

  • Box 5 Folder 17
    Email correspondence with Elizabeth Varon, March 2021
  • Box 5 Folder 18
    "On to Richmond" " section on touring the city from the Richmond Times-Dispatch , 26 September 2010
  • Box 5 Folder 19
    Thomas Fortune Ryan biography
  • Box 5 Folder 20
    "History of St. Francis of Assisi Parish: Part 4: Parish Growth and Priestly Vocations (1900-1930s) "
  • Box 5 Folder 21
    "Richmond Hill: A Priest's Vision " by the Reverend Benjamin P. Campbell, Episcopalian, Chaplain to the Bishop of Virginai, Priest-in_Residence, St. Paul's, Richmond
  • Box 5 Folder 22
    "Steeped in Prayer: People Come to Richmond Hill for Retreat--But Not for Escape " in Virginia Episcopalian , May-June 1998
  • Box 5 Folder 23
    Richmond Hill's daily cycle of prayer
  • Box 5 Folder 24
    Feelings--color wheel; "4-way Prayer of Forgiveness; " composite list of types of traumatic events
  • Box 5 Folder 25
    "A Litany for the Healing of Generations "
  • Box 5 Folder 26
    "African Ubuntu Bible Study "
  • Box 5 Folder 27
    "Cycle of Liberation " and "Cycle of Socialization "
  • Box 5 Folder 28
    Article on Shockoe Bottom
  • Box 5 Folder 29
    Virginia Secession Ordinance
  • Box 5 Folder 30
    Koinonia Slave Trail Walk reflection sheet, 16 November 2019
  • Box 5 Folder 31
    Executive Order Number Thirty-Two (Governor Ralph Northam): Establishment of the Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law, 4 June 2019
  • Box 5 Folder 32
    Harvard Divinity School interview with Professor Cornel West, 4 December 2017
  • Box 5 Folder 33
    "Faith in the City "by DeBorah J. Cannady, 20 January 2020
  • Box 5 Folder 34
    Becoming Anti-Racist--Zones
  • Box 5 Folder 35
    "The Art of Hospitality: African Style, " by Del Chinchen, 1 October 2001
  • Box 5 Folder 36
    "On Reparations, Let Impacted Communities Lead the Way " by David Ragland, Melinda Salazar, and Tarell Kyles, 17 October 2019
  • Box 5 Folder 37
    "John Brown's Declaration and Constitution " from The Intellectual Devotional.com , 11 August 2008
  • Box 5 Folder 38
    Letter from Historic Richmond to Kim Chen, Office of the DCAO (Deputy Chief Administrative Officer), Economic Development and Planning, and Maritza Pechin, Manager, Office of Equitable Development, Department of Planning and Development Review, regarding the draft of the Shockoe SMall Area Plan dated July 19, 2021, 16 August 2021
  • Box 5 Folder 39
    "Sitting on the Sidelines: The Historic Richmond Foundation Declines to Weigh in on the Shockoe Bottome Debate " by Ned Oliver, 1 July 2014
  • Box 5 Folder 40
    Songs: "Canticle of the Turning, " "Cast Out, O Christ, " "Wonderful Words of Life " "Spirit, Pour Out, " and "Sanctus "
  • Box 5 Folder 41
    Poems
  • Box 5 Folder 42
    Prayer for Discernment and Wisdom When You Need God's Direction
  • Box 5 Folder 43
    Black Dancers and Robert E. Lee Monument
  • Box 6 Folder 1
    Correspondence and papers
  • Box 6 Folder 2
    Zoom presentation, "Womanist Wellness Workshop: Tilling the Soil, Exposing the Roots: Discovering OUr Ancestral Legacies, " 2021
  • Box 6 Folder 3
    Whole Truth History--Pam Smith at Virginia Theological Seminary, October 2022
  • Box 6 Folder 4
    Brochure-- "Richmond Hill: The Judy Project " and "Mending Walls Transcending Walls "
  • Box 6 Folder 5
    brochure-- "The Judy Project: Unearthing African American Stories at Richmond Hill, " 2021
  • Box 6 Folder 6
    Booklet-- "Seeing the Scars of Slavery in the Natural Environment: An Interpretive Guide to the Manchester Slave Trail Along the James River in Richmond, " James River Park System
  • Box 6 Folder 7
    Program-- "Dedication of Hearth Memorial to the Enslaved, " William and Mary, 7 May 2022
  • Box 6 Folder 8
    Brochure-- "Museum Guide Your History Museum Your History: Virginia Museum of History and Culture "
  • Box 6 Folder 9
    "The Old City Cemetery: A Quick Guide " (Lynchburg)
  • Box 6 Folder 10
    "The Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library of the Town of Leesburg, Virginia: Our History, Our Mission, our Ongoing Commitment "
  • Box 6 Folder 11
    Cards-- "True Sons of Freedom, " The Library of Virginia
  • Box 6 Folder 12
    Poem-- "My Great Grandfather's Slaves " by Wendell Berry
  • Box 6 Folder 13
    Brochure-- "Cemeteries of Belmead Powhatan, Virginia "
  • Box 6 Folder 14
    Program-- "VCU Department of History Diploma Ceremony, " 14 May 2022
  • Box 6 Folder 15
    Brochure-- "John Jasper: Virginia's Celebrated Preacher "
  • Box 6 Folder 16
    Program-- "American Civil War Museum and Virginia Museum of History and Culture Present Legacies of Emancipation, " 25 October 2019
Series XV: Articles
Box 6

Articles consists of articles regarding slavery and enslaved persons, African American cemeteries, archaeology, racism, Reconstruction, and the Adams family of Richmond, Virginia.

  • Box 6 Folder 17
    "Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830, " by the Department of Research of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in The Journal of Negro History , volume 9, number 2, April 1924
  • Box 6 Folder 18
    "Genealogy of the Adams Family of New Kent and Henrico Counties, Va., " by C. W. Coleman in William and Mary Quarterly , volume 5, number 3, Janaury 1897
  • Box 6 Folder 19
    "Letters of Richard Adams to Thomas Adams, " in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography , volume 22, number 4, October 1914
  • Box 6 Folder 20
    "The History of Enslaved People at Georgetown Visitation, " by Susan Nalezyty in U.S. Catholic Historian , volume 37, number 2, Spring 2019
  • Box 6 Folder 21
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    "A Sense of Their Own Power: Self-Determination in Recent Writings on Black Virginians, " by Philip J. Schwarz in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography , volume 97, number 3, July 1989
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    "War Letters of the Bishop of Richmond, " edited by Willard E. Wight in Virginai Magazine of History and Biography , volume 67, number 3, July 1959
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    "Review of Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade, " by Rebecca Shumway in William and Mary Quarterly , volume 71, number 3, July 2014
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    "Winney Grimshaw, a Virginia Slave, and Her Family, " by Richard S. Dunn in Early American Studies , volume 9, number 3, Fall 2011
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