In history books, American slaves are a nameless, faceless group whose impact on the nation’s history is unquestionable but whose individual lives are almost completely unknown. Tom Costa, a history professor at the University of Virginia at Wise, is trying to change all that. Costa is compiling an online database of newspaper ads about runaway slaves from 18th century Virginia newspapers.
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Tom Costa, Professor of History at the University of Virginia at Wise













