Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from mpm.edu ([192.206.48.29]) by mpm1.mpm.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12399; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:56:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:44:55 -0500 From: Al Muchka <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Milwaukee Public Museum X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Seeking information, Virginia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good Day. I am researching a Black family from Virginia who migrated to Ohio and later, Milwaukee Wisconsin. This family was one of Milwaukee's first, pioneer black families and has a great significance for the area. I have slave documents, free papers, registration papers, receipts, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes of family members in the collection. Anyway, while in Virginia, the family was divided. The patriarch being a slave while the matriarch and children were free. The patriarch was a semi-skilled man who seems to have been used to work in the warehouses of Richmond (though his master's actual home/farm was in northern Virginia near Stafford. The master's son seems to have been a merchant in Richmond). I am trying to find out what typical living conditions might have been for both sides of the family...during the period 1817-1834 a) male slave with part time residence on the master's farm in Stafford Co. and part time in the City of Richmond. The master's farm is described in the WPA survey of Virginia plantations but it talks of the main house, not the slave quarters or outbuildings. The farmsite is now located somewhere on the Quantico Marine base. b) a free black woman in Richmond who made a living as a washer woman and seamstress while caring for her aged mother and 3 children. Are there any references I should search, specific questions to ask, or people I ought to contact that could help? This information will eventually be part of a museum exhibit. I would appreciate any guidance, public or private (my Email address is listed below). Thanking you all, in advance, I am Sincerely yours, Albert Muchka Assistant Curator, History Milwaukee Public Museum, History Section 800 w. Wells St. Rm 521 Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 278-2785 Email [log in to unmask]