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This is a hiring form between James Robinson and John Lee regarding James' son Tasco. Though James was free his wife and children were enslaved and Lee was their owner.

In his attempts to keep his family safe and together, Robinson was able to…

Homemade dishes, colonoware is a low fired unglazed dish which is thought to have African origins.

This bead was found at Nash House, the site of an African American church which the Robinsons may have attended. Beads like this were used as a part of traditional African “minsiki” spiritual bundles.

This famous broadside was first to advertise secession, run by South Carolina's Charleston Mercury. South Carolina was the first state to secede.

The second in a series of woodcuts depicting the Second Battle of Manassas, this shows the devastated fields after battle. No longer lush with crops, the fields have been laid barren, hurting the livelihoods of local residents only one year after the…

This wood cut depicting a charge during the First Battle of Manassas in July of 1861 shows Confederate leaders Bee, Bartow, and Evans rallying the troops. Visible in the background is a small farm, Robinson House Farm. Also located on what is today…