RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) is unveiling a new exhibit called “Un/Bound: Free Virginians, 1619-1865,” which tells the stories of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the first captive Africans to the abolition of slavery.
The exhibition is a combination of artifacts, pictures and first-person accounts to tell the story of the more-than-200-year quest for freedom. Curators said it’s one of the first museum exhibitions to cover this subject in depth.
“It’s a group of people that we really don’t know much about. They’re not usually centered in the historical narrative and so we’re trying to fix that,” said Elizabeth Klaczynski, Associate Curator for the exhibition…