As recently as a couple of years ago, most people in Brownsburg, Virginia — population 33 within the village and a few thousand around it — would proudly tell you that they didn't have slavery in ...

“It’s extremely important to get the viewpoint of someone like Goings. That we’re in a program with authors of three other books that deal with slavery, I think, shows that the Virginia Festival of ...

A West Virginia couple has been sentenced to decades in prison for abusing and enslaving their Black adopted children, forcing them to perform heavy labor and endure inhumane conditions. Donald Lantz, ...

A white couple in Sissonville, West Virginia, faced additional charges of human sex trafficking and neglect after reportedly confining their five adoptive Black children in a barn for forced labor.

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. June 29, 1845: George W.

The project included descendants, University of Virginia graduate students, historians, Rockbridge County high schoolers and a 5-year-old who dug... Virginia museum works to uncover town's history of ...