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Welcome

Sharswood Foundation

We need Your Generous Support

to Restore the

Slave Dwelling and Cemetery

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Your donation will help us restore a slave cabin in Virginia

Thank You to Leslie Stahl and CBS 60 Minutes!

Watch the replay on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPk2F3rxetk

To all who tuned in to the 60 Minutes episode...Thank you! My family and I are forever grateful for the outpouring of support, kind words, and donations to help restore the dilapidated slave dwelling and cemetery, overgrown with weeds . We are overjoyed and hopeful that our family's discovery at Sharswood may serve as a catalyst for a better understanding of slavery in America.

We all have a part in making a difference.

At Sharswood, I will do my best to fix many of the visibly broken things...but I cannot do it alone. Your donation will make it possible for professional historical restoration workers to join me.

~Fredrick Miller

Learn More About black hisory in virginia

Montpelier, VA

Shirley Plantation

Nottaway County

Montpelier - A memorial to James Madison and the Enslaved Community, a museum of American history, and a center for constitutional education that engages the public with the enduring legacy of Madison's most powerful idea:

government by the people.

https://www.montpelier.org/

Nottaway County

Shirley Plantation

Nottaway County

Nottaway County had the highest percentage of enslaved people at 74 percent. Nottoway County was first inhabited by native American Indians of the Iroquoian nation tribe called Nadowa. This name was Anglicized with the coming of English settlers to 'Nottoway.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottoway_County,_Virginia

Shirley Plantation

The oldest plantation in Virginia, dating back to 1613. It was a tobacco plantation and the primary labor force was enslaved Africans and their descendants. The tobacco was shipped within the colonies and to England. Now home to Upper Shirley Vineyards.

https://historicshirley.com/

1619

Monticello, VA

Shirley Plantation

Africans were first brought to colonial Virginia in 1619, when 20 Africans from present-day Angola arrived in Virginia aboard the ship The White Lion. Black women were bred to increase the number of enslaved people for the slave trade, and children were sold.

https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

Legislation

Monticello, VA

Laws and practices limited the behavior of African Americans, for example, by not allowing blacks to meet in groups, have firearms, or raise livestock. They could only leave plantations for four hours at a time and needed written permission to travel.

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/

Monticello, VA

The primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father and the third president of the United States. Historians agree that Jefferson fathered six children by his enslaved mistress, Sally Hemings, who was also half-sister to Jefferson's wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings

Welcome

Sharswood Foundation

Your donation will help us restore a slave cabin in Virginia

Thank You to Leslie Stahl and CBS 60 Minutes!

Help Our Cause

Learn More About black hisory in virginia

Montpelier, VA

Shirley Plantation

Nottaway County

Nottaway County

Shirley Plantation

Nottaway County

Shirley Plantation

Shirley Plantation

Shirley Plantation

1619

Monticello, VA

Shirley Plantation

Legislation

Monticello, VA

Monticello, VA

Monticello, VA

Monticello, VA

Monticello, VA

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