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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia, Circular No. 11
Virginia's General Assembly passed legislation in 1866 to legalize the "Marriages of Colored Persons now cohabiting as Husband and Wife." Freedmen's Bureau agents were authorized to compile registers of cohabiting couples who considered themselves…
Charter and By-laws of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, in the City of Richmond, Va.
Lucy Goode Brooks solicited support from African American churches and a local meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Richmond to establish the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans, which the General Assembly incorporated in 1872. The charter…
