Slaves & Slavery
Information about slaves, slavery, and freedmen in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

This section features selected references to African-Americans in Civil War Richmond.

Written Accounts

1864-09-10, Richmond Whig; two Castle Thunder escapees caught
1864-09-15, Richmond Whig; free negro charged with stealing linens from Stuart Hospital, released after it was found that the Steward of the hospital had already administered a "thrashing"
1864-09-20, Charleston Mercury; editorial notation describing the utilization of prisoners from Libby as laborers - questions whether this can be expanded (copied from the Richmond Examiner)
1864-09-23, Richmond Dispatch; slave to be hanged today “on the hill back of the new city alms-house.”
1864-09-28, Richmond Sentinel; locomotive traveling up the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood and falls back down into the canal bridge
1864-10-14, Official Records, Ser. II, Vol. VII, pp. 987-988; Turner reports on negro soldiers at Libby Prison and Castle Thunder
1864-10-27, Richmond Sentinel; negro boy is killed after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be stopped
1864-10-27, Richmond Whig; negro boy is killed after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be stopped
1864-10-31, Richmond Sentinel; two females who had been serving for two years under Gen. Early were found out and put in Castle Thunder; details on two other prisoners: one male slave and one white female
1864-11-05, Richmond Sentinel; Wm., slave of Sally Tompkins charged with burglary

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