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It is one of the least commonly known facts about the Civil War: there were many, many free negroes living in slaveholding states before the Emancipation Procla

Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jeffe