BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Fredericksburg Natl Battlefield -- Chatham

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CHAT_970717_01.JPG: Fredericksburg; Chatham; View of City
2. CHAT_970717_02.JPG: Fredericksburg; Chatham; View of City
3. CHAT_970717_03.JPG: Fredericksburg; Chatham; Building
4. CHAT_970717_04.JPG: Fredericksburg; Chatham; Statue
5. CHAT_970717_05.JPG: Fredericksburg; Chatham; Statue close-up
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Wikipedia Description: Chatham Manor
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Chatham Manor is the Georgian-style home built in 1768-71 by William Fitzhugh on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia opposite Fredericksburg and was for many years the center of a large, thriving plantation. Flanking the main house were dozens of supporting structures: a dairy, ice house, barns, stables. Down on the river was a fish hatchery, while elsewhere on the 1,280 acre estate were an orchard, mill, and a race track, where Fitzhugh's horses vied with those of other planters for prize money. The house was named after British parliamentarian,William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham, who championed many of the opinions held by American colonists prior to the Revolutionary War.

Slavery at Chatham:

Fitzhugh owned upwards of one hundred slaves. Most worked as field hands or house servants, but he also employed skilled tradesmen such as millers, carpenters, and blacksmiths.

January 1805, a number of Fitzhugh's slaves rebelled after an overseer ordered slaves back to work at what they considered was too short an interval after the Christmas holidays. The slaves involved overpowered and whipped their overseer and four others who had tried to make them return to work. An armed posse put down the rebellion and punished those involved. One black man was executed, two died while trying to escape, and two others were deported, perhaps to a slave colony in the Caribbean.

A later owner of Chatham, Hannah Coulter, who acquired the plantation in the 1850s, tried to free her slaves through her will upon her death, a rare event for ante-bellum Virginia. She stated that, upon her death, her slaves would have the choice of being freed (and have their passage to Liberia paid for) or remaining as a slave for the new owner of Chatham. That new owner, J. Horace Lacy, took the will to court and had it overturned. The laws of the day, affirmed through the 1857 Dred Scott Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, had d ...More...
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