Free Negroes
Information about Free Negros in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1865-04-13, New York Herald; lengthy dispatches from Richmond detailing conditions there, Dahlgren’s body being recovered and sent north, Tredegar, prisons, and Lincoln’s plan for peace
1865-04-13, Richmond Whig; Rocketts, the port of Richmond has resumed trade, and is being cleaned up
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; military has reopened Cary street by putting “contrabands” to work
1865-04-18, Richmond Whig; Tom Griffin “well-known colored restaurant keeper” who lost both of his saloons in ehe evacuation fire, opens new saloon in the “iron-front” buildings on Governor street
1865-04-20, Richmond Whig; circular order “to the unemployed poor of Richmond” clarifying responsibilities of Freedmen, and the army’s standards for the issuance of rations
1865-04-21, Boston Liberator; Charles Coffin correspondence from Richmond, 4/5. Mentions black Confederate soldiers, Thomas Morris Chester, ruins of Richmond, Charles Sumner in Richmond, Libby Prison, and Abraham Lincoln
1865-04-22, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper; Account of Lincoln’s visit to Richmond from a sketch artist – notes Lincoln’s recent illness
1865-05-04, Richmond Whig; "idle colored" women of Manchester have been sent to Belle Isle
1865-05-31, Washington Daily National Republican; details of colored troops are burying Union troops at the battlefields
1865-06-03, The National Freedman; important article about schools for Freedmen. First African Church and Chimborazo mentioned specifically

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