On Friday, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, announced it would remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion, The Uprising That Shook Virginia to Its Core
Nat Turner (Oct. 2, 1800 – Nov. 11, 1831)
Nat Turner, who was born into slavery in Virginia, became a preacher and said he had been chosen by God to lead enslaved people to freedom.
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Field set for the 2016 NCAA tournament
March madness is here. The field is set for the 2016 NCAA tournament, and the entire field was announced during Sunday night’s selection show.
Meet Engineer Benjamin Montgomery: The Inventor Who Bought the Plantation Where He Was Once Enslaved
Benjamin Montgomery was born an enslaved African in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. His master was Joseph Davis, a Mississippi planter and older brother of future President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis. Blackinventor.com mentions that Davis’ children taught Montgomery how to read and write, and he was assigned to run the general store on the Davis Bend Plantation. Because of his excellent work, Davis put Montgomery in charge of overseeing the entirety of his purchasing and shipping operations on the plantation.
