Historic Wanderings

Where the Air Grows Thin: A Shared Passion for History Simone Jacobs, LCSW-C “We are here today to say - we were here.” Rev. Dr. Caesor John...

We Remember Joseph McCoy. A Black teenager murdered by a white terror mob in Alexandria, Virginia on April 23, 1897. Over a century later, s...

East End Cemetery, founded in the 1890s, is an historic Black cemetery in Richmond, Virginia... The site was seemingly forgotten by the 1980...

  Simone Jacobs, LCSW-C Maddy McCoy Ly Vick Johnson, MSW   This blog post is part of an ongoing conversation about the connection between hi...

Breaking Down the Wall of Slavery at Carlyle House. Join Maddy McCoy of the Slavery Inventory Database for a zoom discussion on how the ensl...

Slavery Inventory Database (SID) is conducting the antebellum research for the groundbreaking Virginia Theological Seminary Reparations Proj...

Archaeologist Brian Crane joined the group for our next stop on #fieldtripfriday... an amazing 18th century farm in the ag reserve with the ...

Team Slavery Inventory Database (SID) went on a fabulous #fieldtripfriday! We are so grateful to Kenny Sholes of the Montgomery County, Mary...

Our final stop on #fieldtripfriday was to the historic African American Warren Cemetery. This cemetery is a perfect example of Black history...

The original enslaved structure was removed to said location (adjacent to big house) from a contingent family farm. No idea if original ensl...