Newman is an assistant archivist at the Virginia Historical Society, which recently released a free database of previously unknown slaves in Virginia. She’ll be holding workshops with others involved with the database on Tuesday and Wednesday in Alexandria and Staunton to talk about their findings.

How many slaves are in the database?

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