The Chancellor Slaves The Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville VA
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Don.Morfe
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Their names are unrecorded, their labors are rarely noted. No images of them survive. But slaves outnumbered Chancellor family members when Frances Chancellor moved into this house in 1861.
Waymark Code: WM18JM7
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2023
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The Chancellor Slaves The Battle of Chancellorsville— Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park —Their names are unrecorded, their labors are rarely noted. No images of them survive. But slaves outnumbered Chancellor family members when Frances Chancellor moved into this house in 1861. Likely only a few of the 20 slaves owned by the Chancellors occupied the house itself. Most probably lived in cabins scattered across the Chancellors' 300 acres of farmland. The slaves' overseer James Moxley lived at Fairview, a quarter mile to the southwest.
When the Union army arrived at Fredericksburg in spring 1862, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of Spotsylvania's 6,000 slaves escaped into Union lines. The Chancellor slaves were among those who fled. By May 1863 only one slave remained with the family: a young girl whose mother had left months earlier. When the house caught fire and the Chancellors fled, they left the girl behind - her fate unknown. Most likely she passed into Union lines - to freedom.
LOCATION: Marker is near Chancellorsville, Virginia, in Spotsylvania County. Marker is at the intersection of Plank Road (State Highway 3) and Elys Ford Road (County Route 610), on the right when traveling west on Plank Road. Located at stop three of the driving tour of Chancellorsville Battlefield. Post office area: Fredericksburg VA 22407
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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