VA, USA
Norfolk
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Norfolk.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
Liberty to Slaves
Refugees Who Answered Dunmore's Proclamation
The names of most of them are lost. We know that perhaps 800 to 2,000 enslaved people made it to Lord Dunmore's ships after his November 1775 proclamation, and that many more tried and failed. We know...
Modern VoiceThe Town That Burned Twice
The conventional story of Norfolk's destruction goes like this: Lord Dunmore bombarded the town from his ships on January 1, 1776, and the fires destroyed most of the buildings. The reality is more co...