Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

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Mine eyes have seen the glory : the story of a Virginia lady Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, who taught her family to hate slavery and to love the Union, 1954.

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Blackford recounts the life of his grandmother, author of the 1832 "Notes illustrative of the wrongs of slavery." He quotes extensively from Blackford family letters and journals. Included in the story are excerpts from the letters of Abram Blackford, a freed slave to emigrated to Liberia, letters from her husband William M. Minor on a diplomatic mission to Bogotá, and an account narrated by Betsy, a slave owned by Dr. John Staige Davis of the University of Virginia.

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Blackford family.

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Betsy (Charlottesville, Va., slave)

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Blackford, Abram, fl. 1845.

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Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1837-1914,

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Head of the Episcopal High School for boys in Alexandria, Va., 1870-1913. From the description of Launcelot Minor Blackford diaries, 1847-1913. WorldCat record id: 23150017 University of Virginia student from Lynchburg, Va.; afterwards Lt., C.S.A., principal of the Norwood School, and of Episcopal High School. From the description of Launcelot M. Blackford's intermediate and senior mathematics exercises [manuscript], [1855-1856] (University of Virginia). WorldCat...

Blackford, W. W. (William Willis), 1831-1905

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Planter and railroad executive of Louisiana and Virginia. From the description of Annotations by W. W. Blackford [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874350 ...

Davis, John Staige, 1824-1885

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University of Virginia professor. Professor of Anatomy, University of Virginia. From the description of Papers and anatomy notes of John Staige Davis [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647881305 ...

Blackford, B. L. (Benjamin Lewis)

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Benjamin Lewis Blackford worked for a time at an insurance company in Washington, D.C. His brothers were Charles Minor Blackford (1833-1903) and Launcelot Minor Blackford (1837-1914). From the guide to the B. L. Blackford Letters, ., 1853-1868, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Peggy (Blackford family slave)

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Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1894-1964

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Dr. Launcelot Minor Blackford (1894-May 5, 1964) was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of L. Minor Blackford, a principal of Episcopal School, Alexandria and the grandson of Mary Beckeley Blackford, a Southern abolitionist, whose biography Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory was written by Dr. Blackford and was published by the Harvard University Press. Dr. Blackford attended the University of Virginia and graduated from its Medical School in 1923 and interned at John Hopkins and at Mayo's. He was...

Blackford, Eugene, 1839-1908.

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Blackford, William M., 1801-1864

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Consular officer. Full name: William Matthews Blackford. From the description of William M. Blackford papers, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450683 Lynchburg, Virginia, editor, bank cashier and postmaster. From the description of William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823072 William Matthews Blackford, journalist, diplomat, financial agent, and banker, was born 19 August 1801, ...

Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903

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Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Va.)

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Blackford, Mary Berkeley Minor, 1802-1896

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