“Finding Freedom: Exploring the stories of African American men and women in Revolutionary War Virginia” is the title of a program sponsored by the Middlesex County, Virginia 250 Committee at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 22, at St. Clare Walker Middle School, 6814 General Puller Highway, Locust Hill. Adrienne G. Whaley, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, will present the program. On the eve of the American Revolution, people of African descent made up almost a fifth of British North America’s population. Almost half of them lived in Virginia. They loved, worked, worshipped and strove to build lives and protect their families and communities despite the hardships they faced, a release said. Whaley will tell some of these Virginians’ stories in an age of Revolution, from those who sought their freedom with the British to those who felt the hope for a brighter future lay with the Revolutionary cause. “Hear their names, disco...
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