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21,000 enslaved people were sold from Norfolk, Virginia<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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21,000 men, women and children<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

left Virginia via Norfolk and were sold in the Mississippi River Valley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enslaved people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

were one of the most valuable exports from Virginia during the antebellum era<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slave traders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

made hundreds of thousands of dollars by separating families<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ship Manifests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students transcribed the manifests for slave trading ships leaving Norfolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Records of Sales<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students found the records of the sales of enslaved people in New Orleans Notary records<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill of sale from Norfolk, Virginia, for purchase of an enslaved person by Bernard Raux and Nathaniel Currier : printed form with manuscript material (Bernard Raux slave trade papers, MS Am 790, Houghton Library, Harvard University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Data and storytelling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our project both relies on compiling data to discover trends and focusing on the experiences of individual enslaved men, women and children to contextualize the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who We Are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROADSTEAD Montessori High School, the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for the Study of the African Diaspora at Norfolk State University and the Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library are working together to find their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project is generously supported by the Virginia African American Cultural Center<\/a> and the Mellon Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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21,000 men, women and children left Virginia via Norfolk and were sold in the Mississippi River Valley Enslaved people were one of the most valuable exports from Virginia during the antebellum era Slave traders made hundreds of thousands of dollars by separating families Who We Are: ROADSTEAD Montessori High School, the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center… Read More »Sold Down River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solddownriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}