The Family of Silas Omohundro

For ages 12+. Historian Emmanuel Dabney presents a lecture on education, emancipation, and race in antebellum Richmond. Silas Omohundro was a white slave trader in pre-Civil War Richmond and his third wife, Corinna and their children were legally his human property. Information about the Omohundro family and material life will be contrasted against the lives of the enslaved people he owned and sold. Information: 652-3409.