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

Written Accounts

1866-03-06, Richmond Dispatch; paper admits it was wrong to assume “insurrectionary” motives on the part of the Chimborazo negroes – nothing more “than the result of several fights and disturbances between the young men and the negroes of the neighborhood
1866-03-06, Richmond Whig; details of Chimborazo riot – large, “organized body of negroes” complete with sentinels and military order in shoot-out with police and soldiers. Many arrests
1866-03-07, Richmond Dispatch; freedmen meet to discuss a celebration of the capture of Richmond at the Second African Church
1866-03-07, Richmond Dispatch; soldier in the 11th US Infantry guilty of assault and battery – sent to Libby for 30 days
1866-03-07, Richmond Dispatch; trial of “negroes charged with being implicated in the disturbances at Chimborazo” has been postponed
1866-03-09, Richmond Dispatch; detailed description of the “riot” and shooting affair at Chimborazo, eventually involving guards from Libby Prison
1866-03-09, Richmond Dispatch; two drunk and disorderly U. S. soldiers tossed into Libby Prison
1866-03-09, Richmond Examiner; James Ford, white youth, arrested for being part of “the Chimborazo Hill negro riots of Friday night last.” About a dozen others were also charged
1866-03-09, Richmond Examiner; very detailed account of the recent race riot at Chimborazo Hill
1866-03-09, Richmond Whig; lengthy description of particulars of the Chimborazo riot – 10 men arrested are discharged, except John Green, sent on for trial

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