Patty Cannon and the Tangent Line

Kidnapping, Murder, and the Reverse Underground Railroad 

on Mason & Dixon's Line

Wheeling was the Capital of Virginia

Sic Semper Tyrannis -- Liberty and Union

During the Civil War, the capital of Virginia was the city of Wheeling in the northern panhandle of what is now West Virginia.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Riley Farm House in North Bethesda

Cedar Hill

Frederick Douglass' Home  on W Street in Anacostia, DC
 

L'Hermitage

French Caribbean Slavery in Maryland

 The Best Family Farm, Monocacy National Battlefield near Frederick, Maryland

A Freedman's Home

The Gilmore Farm in the Shadow of James Madison's Montpelier

This was George and Polly Gilmore's farm in the second half of the 19th century. Both George and Polly were born into slavery at James Madison's Montpelier. The Gilmore family lived here until the 1930's.

Moncure Conway

 A Man Who Freed Himself ...

The Lady with the Harp

 Eliza Ridgely

This 1818 painting by Thomas Sully may have saved his 15-year-old subject's home, Hampton.

Slave Pens in Alexandria

Lest We Forget...

1315 Duke Street in Alexandria is a stark reminder of the coastal trade in human beings, sold south, from the mid-Atlantic to the deep south in the years preceding the Civil War.

Roger Brooke Taney Didn't Live Here.

The Roger Brooke Taney House




 121 South Bentz Street, Frederick Maryland