Armistead C. Eliason
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Name
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Armistead C. Eliason
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Given Name
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Armistead C.
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Family Name
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Eliason
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Occupation
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University of Virginia student
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Description
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Armistead C. Eliason was a University of Virginia student and rapist. University of Virginia’s Faculty Minutes, April 24, 1850, records that University of Virginia student Armistead C. Eliason, along with students George H. Hardy and James E. Montandon, violently raped a young girl described as a “small negro girl.” Their violent rape of a child was witnessed and interrupted by University of Virginia students Daniel B. Conrad, John B. Eastham, and Richard Venable Gaines, who reported the crime to the Chairman of the Faculty. Eliason and fellow perpetrators Hardy and Montandon fled and escaped the “Civil Authority” in Charlottesville. The Board of Visitors Minutes, June 28, 1850, records that they were expelled from the University.
