Works Consulted

General

Slavery in the United States

I am in the process of educating myself about slavery in the colonies and United States. While I am not in a position to provide a comprehensive bibliography on this important topic, I have found the following works particularly helpful in my research so far.

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1998.

Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.

Slavery in Page County, Virginia

I have found the following works useful for understanding the particular context of enslavement in Page County, Virginia.

Ballard, Charles C. “Dismissing the Peculiar Institution: Assessing Slavery in Rockingham and Page Counties, Virginia.” Luray, Va.: Page County Heritage Association, 1999.

Denkler, Ann. Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007.

Veney, Bethany. The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman. Worcester, Mass.: Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 1889; digital edition, 1997, https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/veney/veney.html.

Family-Specific Documentation

Primary sources for information about enslaved individuals on this site include the following.

1840 U.S. census, Page County, Virginia, township not stated, page 4 (handwritten), Henry Brumback household; digital image, Ancestry.com, “1840 United States Federal Census”; citing Family History Library film 0029690.

Page County, Virginia, Will Book C, Last Will and Testament of Daniel Strickler, dated 1 April 1845, recorded 28 May 1845, page 43; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Will Book C, list of property assigned to Elizabeth Strickler, widow and relict of Daniel Strickler, 11 June 1845, pages 50-51; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Will Book C, “Appraisement of the personal Estate of Daniel Strickler dec’d as appraised into current money this 11th and 12th days of June 1845,” pages 51-52; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Will Book C, “Sale Bill of the Personal Estate of Daniel Strickler dec’d as sold by the Exec’s on the 13th and 14th days of June 1845,” pages 52-53; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Accounts, Vol. C, pp. 88-90, Last Will and Testament, Henry Brumback, 21 February 1846; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Accounts, Vol. C, pp. 114-116, "Inventory and Appraisement of the personal estate and Slaves of Henry Brumback Sen. Decd. Taken 31st March 1846"; digital image, Ancestry.com, Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983; citing FHL film JR 2436.

Page County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Accounts, Vol. C, pp. 116-120, ” Inventory and Sale of the personal property belonging to the Estate of Henry Brumback Sold by his Executor April 7th, 1846, at public sale”; digital image, Ancestry.com, Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983; citing FHL film JR 2436.

Page County, Virginia, Will Book G, Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Sedwick, 1857, page 54; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”

Page County, Virginia, Will Book G, “Inventory and appraisement of the personal property of Benjamin Sedwick decd., of Page County, Virginia July 1st. 1857” page 94; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”