These court cases reveal how enslaved Black people in Virginia sought freedom in the courts after the colonial government made manumitting enslaved people the responsibility of the government.
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The story of an enslaved black woman caught up in the hysteria of the 1741 slave uprising.
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This letter demonstrates that Russian colonial efforts relied on intermarriage between Russian traders and Native women.
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Two letters of Lucy Knox illustrate the trials and tribulations of women whose husbands left to fight in the war.
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Soldiers’ accounts of encounters with a Haudenosaunee woman who lost everything during General John Sullivan’s raids against Native communities in New York.
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In this document, a well-to-do Loyalist lady recounts the events of the first battles of the American Revolution.
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Young Lenni-Lenape women sign a treaty selling Staten Island to the government of colonial New York.
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This skillfully painted hide demonstrates the craft and artistry of Quapaw women, and provides clues about the Quapaw’s relationship with French settlers and neighboring tribes.
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This engraving illustrates George Washington’s meeting with Seneca leader Queen Aliquippa, an important ally of the British during the French and Indian War.
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Margueritte Wiltz’s petition to marry a Spanish soldier captures the early expressions of white supremacy in Spanish Louisiana.
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