For more information regarding African American history at or affiliated with Hampden-Sydney College, check out these sources:<\/p>\n
Primary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. Dabney Cosby papers. Library of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n 2. Eggleston, Joseph Dupuy. Letter to Robert Elton Berry. February 14, 1942. Archive and Manuscript Collection. Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n 3. Eggleston, Joseph Dupuy. Letter to Virginius Dabney. May 6, 1942. Archive and Manuscript Collection. Virginia Historical Society. Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n 4. Fitzgerald, J.P. Tax Map. April 24, 1871.<\/p>\n 5. Keckley, Elizabeth.\u00a0Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African American Seamstress.\u00a0<\/i>(New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868).<\/p>\n 6. Prince Edward County Courthouse. \u201cRegister of Births: 1853-1896 .\u201d<\/b> Farmville, Virginia.<\/i><\/p>\n 7. Prince Edward County Courthouse. \u201cRegister of Deaths: 1853-1868 Prince Edward County.\u201d Farmville, Virginia.<\/p>\n 8. \u201cRichard Morton Venable Family Tree.\u201d Accessed February 14, 2013. http:\/\/trees.ancestry.com\/tree\/21787456\/person\/1337875068.<\/p>\n 9. Venable, Nathaniel. Will. Prince Edward County Courthouse. Farmville, Virginia.<\/p>\n Secondary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. Bradshaw, Herbert C.\u00a0History of Hampden-Sydney College, Volume 1.\u00a0<\/em>(Durham, NC: Fisher-Harrison Corporation, 1976).<\/p>\n 2. Brinkley, John Luster. On This Hill: A Narrative History of Hampden-Sydney College 1774-1994.<\/i> (Hampden-Sydney, VA: 1994).<\/p>\n 3. Eggleston, Joseph Dupuy. \u201cThe Attitude of Virginia Leaders Toward Slavery and Secession.\u201d\u00a0The Virginia Teacher. <\/i>Vol. XIII. September-October 1932. No. 6-7.<\/p>\n 4. \u00a0Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. <\/i>(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).<\/p>\n 5. \u00a0Gaskins, Ray. \u201cStokes and Bettie Brown (of Hampden-Sydney).\u201d The Farmville Herald.\u00a0<\/i>September 4, 2009.<\/p>\n 6. \u00a0Thompson, William E. Her Walls Before Thee Stand: The 235-Year History of the Presbyterian Congregation at Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. <\/i>(Farmville, VA: Zebrabooks Publications, 2010).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Census, birth, and death records, wills, and maps can all provide information not readily available in published sources. These require a bit more searching and analysis, but because sources on early African American history are few and far between, these records tend to yield the most valuable information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For more information regarding African American history at or affiliated with Hampden-Sydney College, check out these sources: Primary 1. Dabney Cosby papers. Library of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia. 2. Eggleston, Joseph … Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/untoldstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}