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News & Announcements

NHSL featured in CNN article
NHSL Invited to UN Film Night celebrating Human Rights Day and 2015 – 2024 International Decade for People of African Descent
NHSL mentioned in Daily Kos
NHSL featured in the Maryland Masonic Family Newsletter
NHSL in the Westmoreland News

African American Genealogy Resources

Afrigeneas- African American & African Ancestored Genealogy
Black Past- African American Genealogy
Christine's Genealogy Website
Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware
Roots Web Guide to Tracing Family Trees
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities- African American Historic Sites database
Virginia Historical Society-Genealogy

Carter Related Websites

'He had a heart for mankind'
American Scholar: The Anti-Jefferson by Andrew Levy
Corotoman Slave Histories
Diary and Letters of Robert "King Carter"
Freedom Stories- Robert Carter III
Historic Christ Church
Jamestowne Society
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old- Nomini Hall Tutor
NPR – Interview with Andrew Levy- author of Robert Carter III The Abolitionist That Time Forgot
Swedenborgian Church
The Carter Society
Warren Throckmorton on Robert Carter III

NHSL Descendant Websites

A Living Legacy of “Councillor” Carter’s Deed of Gift: Nimrod Burke, 23rd USCT
Links to the Past – Henry Burke
REFLECTION ON MENOKIN SLEEPOVER CONFERENCE BY DESCENDANT OF NORTHERN NECK ENSLAVED
Slaves left their mark on Clarke County
Story of Gumby
The Friends of Freedom Society Ohio Underground Railroad Association

Nomini Hall & Nothern Neck Community

2014 Nomini Hall Fire
An Analysis of Primary Resources Used as Tools for Discovery and Research at Archaeological Sites: Nomini Hall Case Study
FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE COLONIAL PLANTATION: RECREATING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF NOMINI HALL
Historic Christ Church
Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library
Nomini Hall Plantation
Northern Neck Tourism Commission
Northumberland County Historical Society
The Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society
Westmoreland County African American History
Westmoreland County Courthouse and Museum

Related Articles

'He had a heart for mankind'
Book Discussion on The First Emancipator
Robert Carter III—American History’s Forgotten Liberator- Daily Kos
Washington Post: The Day History Bowed to Conscience

Sites Once Owned by the Carter Family

Ben Lomand House- RCIII Former Cancer Plantation
Ben Lomond Manor House
Broad Run Tract- Buckland, VA
Carter's Grove
Dodona Manor
Historic Whitehall Manor
Liberia Plantation
Liberia Plantation- Lower Bull Run tract
Manassas National Battlefield- Bull Run
Oatlands
Paper: The Sycolin Road Pottery
Sabine Hall
Shirley Plantation
The Winery at La Grange

Slavery and The Middle Passage

African Nation Founders- Course
Anti-Slavery
Black Laws of Virginia
CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery
Coming to the Table
Library of Congress: African American Odyssey
Library of Congress: Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
Modern Day Slavery: How many slaves work for you?
New Findings about the Virginia Slave Trade
North American Slave Narratives
Runaway Slaves and Servants in Colonial Virginia
Slave Gardens and Poultry Yards
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
Slavery and the Making of America
Slavery by Another Name
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
US Slave
Voyages Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Contact Information

LaTonya Lawson-Jones, Project Director
Phone: 433-826-9474

Email: latonya@nominihallslavelegacy.com

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