Monthly Archives: March 2013

We’ve recently added nearly 40 emancipation petitions to Civil War Washington, bringing the number of petitions published on the site to more than 570. We will continue adding petitions regularly in coming weeks, and in April we will begin publishing … Continue reading →

25 more emancipation petitions are now available at Civil War Washington. Included in this group of documents is the petition of Susan M. Burche, whose claim indicates that she acquired two female slaves (Virlinda Silvy and Anna Patterson) from the … Continue reading →