Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

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Isaac Granger Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia (c. 1845) was an enslaved tinsmith and blacksmith at Monticello for his family's enslaver, Thomas Jefferson. By 1822, Granger Jefferson, who lived ...

The solemn ceremony was a moment to reflect and honor the ancestors who once lived at Sully while also honoring Juneteenth, the day in 1865 the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.