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Tour focuses on living as enslaved Black person in Norfolk

A special walking tour along the Elizabeth River Trail will focus on what it was like to live as an enslaved Black person in Norfolk. The Underground River tour is on Feb. 17. ....

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Forgotten history of Hampton Roads slave trade recollected

The region sent more than 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans — more than any other port, according to a Norfolk researcher ....

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Norfolk shipped 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans before the Civil War. Now an effort is underway to document the forgotten history.

Congress banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808. But the domestic slave trade trading humans within the nation’s borders, dubbed “the Second Middle Passage” continued through the Civil War and is much less discussed in American history. The Norfolk region sent more than 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans more than any other port, according to the new research of a Slover librarian. ....

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Intentional or not, local Confederate monuments were built on or near former slave sites

Intentional or not, local Confederate monuments were built on or near former slave sites
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