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DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WITH THESE LAST NAMES?
Help us locate the descendant community of the people once enslaved at Richmond Hill.
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We invite your comments and insight!
A 2023 research essay for the Judy Project written VCU undergraduate Kade McGrail, a senior pursuing a history major and religious studies minor. The essay is part one of a project researching Richmond Hill’s full religious history in relation to race. This part covers the site’s history from approximately the sixteenth century up until the start of the Civil War.
Early this month, Elizabeth S. Kostelny, the CEO of Preservation Virginia, the oldest statewide preservation organization in the nation, wrote to share her organization’s support for the Judy Project at Richmond Hill. She wrote in part: I write to lend our support to the Judy Project and its goal to unearth this forgotten history and restore the space for reflection, dialogue, and healing. By envisioning a place that is educational and restorative, the team at…
Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams writes of Richmond Hill and the legacy and future of the dwelling of the enslaved in the July 16, 2022, Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Pam Smith, Historian
psmith@richmondhillva.org
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