February 16, 2016
George Mason University student Georgia Brown organizes the Fairfax Court Slavery Index by searching more than 10,000 references to slaves in the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center will and deed books that date from 1742 to 1870.
Stories this photo appears in:
Uncovering the Roots of Slavery
Local student creates slave index to help descendants trace family history.
A local college student is spending much of her senior year scouring the last wills and testaments of residents of Northern Virginia.
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