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By Ruth Servin Smith @ Dailyprogress.com, July 18
[....] In 2013, UVa began a comprehensive research project that examined letters, documents and records of the early university. Eventually, researchers determined that an estimated 4,000 enslaved people lived and worked at the university from 1817 through 1865.
The slaves were not owned by the university itself, but were rented out from other plantations, or owned by professors. They lived in building basements and in shacks in the yards that are now university gardens. They ran student housing, cooked meals, tended pastures and laid bricks. They also were beaten, raped, force-marched and chained, according to a 2018 report.
Those activities, Murphy said, often left a trace. Even if she just has a person’s name, such as “Sam the Carpenter,” she can find that person’s owner and then look for the person and hope they make an appearance in letters, census records and, after Emancipation, Freedman’s Bureau and marriage and land records [....]