UVa-Wise professor, student give joint presentation on ‘Digitizing Jefferson’s Virginia’

Dr. Tom Costa and student Diane Petro will give a presentation about “Digitizing Jefferson’s Virginia” as part of the Special Lecture/Faculty Colloquia Series on Monday, Nov. 5, in the Chapel of All Faiths at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

The presentation will look at Petro’s summer research project in local Virginia records of the post-revolutionary period, which focused on wills and deeds of emancipation, documents that Virginia masters used to free, or manumit, their slaves. The language of the documents may help us understand the motives of masters who manumitted their slaves.

Posted November 5, 2007