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Time Period Chapter
Racial Inequality
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Confederate defeat threatened to change white southern identity. Suddenly African Americans were free to determine the...
Time Period Chapter
Reconstruction
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During the decade following the Civil War, former Confederate states were required to “reconstruct” their state...
Exhibition
Secrets & Symbols
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Representing a diverse range of artisans, eras, and object types, the featured items in this display share a common...
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Slavery
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Virginia’s 550,000 slaves constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860.