The Chancellor Slaves-The Battle of Chancellorsville - Chancellorsville VA
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Don.Morfe
N 38° 18.528 W 077° 38.086
18S E 269628 N 4243362
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: WM18PVG
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2023
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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.
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: National Park Service
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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