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• Agnes
  Agnes was a woman who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Elizabeth Govan Hill. She was one of twenty-nine people enslaved by Hill, documented on a list of her "servants," January 13, 1862. She is recorded as being twenty-six or twenty-seven years old and residing in Albemarle County, Virginia. She had four children: Randall, Peggy, Jarratt, and an unidentified infant boy. On August 14, 1862, Agnes and her children were trafficked and sold by Hill to white enslaver John Staige Davis.
• Albert
  Albert was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver and hotelkeeper Sarah Carter Gray.
• Albert
  Albert (b. 1853) was a child who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver John Barbee Minor. On an 1863 list of the twenty-one people Minor enslaved, Albert is recorded as being ten years old.
• Alexander Garrett
  Alexander Garrett (April 20, 1778 - February 29, 1860) was a white enslaver who held positions as Charlottesville's postmaster (1797-1799) and the clerk of the Albemarle County Superior Court of Law (1819-). In the latter role, he perpetuated human trafficking via enslaved auctions at Charlottesville's Court Square. He served the University of Virginia as Proctor in 1817, treasurer from 1817-1819, and was appointed the first bursar in 1819. Garrett had familial ties to Thomas Jefferson through marriage. He was the executor of Jefferson's estate and is buried at Monticello.
• Alfred
  Alfred was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver and hotelkeeper Sarah Carter Gray.
• Alfred Thruston Magill
  Alfred Thruston Magill (1804-1837) was a white enslaver and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He was married to Anne Tucker Magill, daughter of Judge Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.
• Ann
  Ann was a child who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Elizabeth Govan Hill. She was one of twenty-nine people enslaved by Hill, documented on a list of her "servants," January 13, 1862. Ann is recorded as being eight years old and residing in Amherst County, Virginia.
• Armistead
  Armistead was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver and University of Virginia Rector Thomas Lewis Preston. He was the husband of Milly and the father of Humphrey.
• Armistead C. Eliason
  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.
• Arthur
  Arthur was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver J. Porter.
• Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough
  Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough (October 20, 1780 - April 27, 1832) was a white enslaver and the first Proctor of the University of Virginia from 1819-1831. He enslaved at least fifteen people.
• Barnet
  Barnet was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver J. W. Saunders.
• Barrett
  Barrett was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Lucy J. Poindexter.
• Ben
  Ben was a man who was claimed in ownership by an unknown enslaver and whose labor was contracted to University of Virginia students living at Hotel D. He is mentioned in a March 10, 1831, entry in the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty: "Some of Mr. Rose's boarders kept a servant. The proctor informed me that he understood some of Mr. Rose’s boarders had joined to keep a servant. On inquiring it appeared that nine of them had clubbed half a dollar a month for the services of an old man named Ben. He was ordered away from the premises."
• Ben
  Ben was a man who was enslaved and labored at the University of Virginia. He sold liquor from the cellar of Pavilion I and was described as being "lame."
• Ben
  Ben was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Blake Harris.
• Ben
  Ben was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Charles Poindexter.
• Ben
  Ben was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Richard Ware.
• Bennett
  Bennett was a young man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Elizabeth Govan Hill. He was one of twenty-nine people enslaved by Hill, documented on a list of her "servants," January 13, 1862. He is recorded as being twenty-one years old and residing in Albemarle County, Virginia.
• Bibbianna
  Bibbianna was a woman who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver John Hartwell Cocke. In 1828, Cocke contracted Bibbianna and ten other enslaved people to labor for Captain John Winn.
• Blake Harris
  Blake Harris was a white enslaver who contracted the labor of the people he claimed in ownership to the University of Virginia.
• Bob
  Bob was a man who was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Charles Downing.
• Branham and Bibb
  Branham and Bibb were white enslavers that contracted the labor of the people they claimed in ownership to the University of Virginia. They were likely individuals who were business partners or a business itself.
• Burkley Bullock
  Burkley Bullock (circa 1834 - January 23, 1908) was a man who was born into slavery in Louisa County, Virginia. At that time, he was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Colonel John R. Jones. Burkley was the son of Abraham and Cynthia Bullock and the brother of John, Albert, Robert, and Martha. In 1855, Col. Jones trafficked and sold Burkley to white enslaver and University of Virginia professor Socrates Maupin for $1,205. During the Union Army's occupation of Charlottesville in 1865, Berkley stole one of Maupin's horses and, with his family, sought freedom. Bullock had a history of freedom seeking. In the MS version, draft no. 1, of "Negro in Virginia", formerly enslaved Horace Tonsler recalls, “Yes, I know of a case of runaway slave, Berkeley Bullock...One day we was drivin’ up de road an’ he showed me de very road he used when he fust ’scaped. Dis road led to Bath County. He said he traveled at night by de moonshine. Said he would feel ’round de trees an’ whichever side de moss grew on, he knoed dat was de north direction. Den he said he boarded a stage dat went as far as de Ohio River. He aimed to get ’cross.… Bullock was still on de stage when it go to de Ohio River. Dey caught him dere fo’ he could make it cross de river.” Burkley was the husband of Mary Ann Washington (d. 1889), and then Harriet Fleming, and fathered ten children. As a free man he invested in real estate, became a businessman, and founded the Ivy Creek Baptist Church (Union Ridge Baptist Church). He is buried in the Daughters of Zion Cemetery.
• Burns
  Burns (first name unknown) was a white enslaver who trafficked and sold Charlotte to white enslaver John Staige Davis on October 23, 1855.