The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early s

Virginia encompasses "this nation's longest continuous experience of Afro-American life and culture," esteemed scholar Armstead L. Robinson has written. This bo

A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.

The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never b