Places tagged "emancipation": 5
Places
Howland Chapel School
Historical Significance
The Howland Chapel School was a one-room school for black children built under the sponsorship of New York educator and philanthropist Emily Howland (1827-1929), an active abolitionist. Howland taught at a school for young…
Hairston Plantations
Historical Significance
The Hairston family was one of the largest slave owning families in colonial and pre-Civil War Virginia. Starting in 1730, when Peter Hairston and his four sons arrived from Scotland, the Hairstons amassed a vast tobacco…
First Baptist Church, Charlottesville
Historical Significance
Prior to 1863, African-American Baptists in Charlottesville worshiped under segregated conditions, attending services in the balcony of the white First Baptist Church on Park Street. Following emancipation, approximately…
Bremo Slave Chapel
Historical Significance
The building that now serves as the parish hall for the Grace Episcopal Church was originally the slave chapel for Bremo, the adjacent plantation of General John Hartwell Cocke. It is the state's only known slave chapel and…
Booker T. Washington Birthplace (Burroughs Plantation)
Historical Significance
The Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates the birthplace of this noted educator, orator, author, and advisor to presidents. The enslaved Washington lived with his mother, brother, and sister in a cabin on the…