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  • Norfolk, Virginia Registry of Free Negroes, 1835-1861, Abstracts
    C. Bernard Ruffin
    In 1793 the Virginia General Assembly, concerned that large numbers of people of color were hiring themselves out, claiming to be free when in fact they were slaves, passed a law 'to restrain the practice of negroes going at large.' This law required all free Negroes and Mulattoes to register with the clerk of the court where they lived. Registration was required once a year wi...
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  • Kemp, Sparrow and Greenwood Families of Norfolk, Virginia
    C. Bernard Ruffin
    “Kemp, Sparrow, and Greenwood Families of Norfolk, Virginia traces the history of an ‘African-American’ family that arose, after the Civil War, through the marriage of Benjamin Franklin Kemp and Mary Louisa (Dodie) Sparrow, from several very different strains: African slaves and Scots aristocrats through the Kemps;free people of color and native American Indians on the side of ...
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  • My Life as I Have Lived It
    C. Bernard Ruffin / CBernard Ruffin / Rosina Corrothers Tucker
    Rosina Harvey was born November 4, 1881 in Washington, D.C. Her detailed recollections of her family, neighborhood and church (as well as her leadership role in America’s first successful black labor union) paint a vivid portrait of her life and times in the nation’s capital. 'The Washington I grew up in, which then had a population of fewer than 300,000, was a very agreeable p...
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  • Last Words
    C. Bernard Ruffin
    The last words of the dying often provide insight into their feelings about life. Some are peaceful ('It is very beautiful over there'--Thomas Alva Edison); many are spiritual ('Don’t ask the Lord to keep me here. Ask him to have mercy'--Walker Percy); others are angry ('God-damn the whole frigging world and everybody in it--except you Carlotta'--W.C. Fields); still others r...
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