Event Dime

A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in Slaveholding

When:

June 23, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Where:

200 S 3rd St, Richmond, VA

Source:

6AM City Richmond – Events

Join historian Melvin Patrick Ely for a fascinating lecture on his new book about interracial life in slaveholding Virginia. Fully half the enslaved people in the South lived not on sprawling plantations but on small properties; this pattern prevailed in much of Virginia. Testimony from criminal trials in Prince Edward County reveals that cruelty was baked into the system, but also that in households of five, ten, fifteen, or twenty people, exploiters and exploited knew each other well. The ensl