October 22, 2014
Photograph of the grave marker of John Armfield in Beersheba Springs, Tenn.
Stories this photo appears in:
Alexandria to New Orleans: The Human Tragedy of the Interstate Slave Trade, Part IV
Part IV: What is also clear from the slave names on the manifests of the slave trade ships is that the enslaved African-Americans of Virginia and Maryland did have a rich and extended family structure.
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