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Enslaved people on a Hanover County plantation owned by Dr. William F. Gaines taken by photographer George Harper Houghton in 1862.

Enslaved people on a Hanover County plantation owned by Dr. William F. Gaines taken by photographer George Harper Houghton in 1862.

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400 years

We pay tribute here to the “20 And odd Negroes” who, 400 years ago in late August 1619, ended up on Virginia’s shores at Point Comfort in what is now Hampton.