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Route 50 and Annandale Road, Falls Church

In 1864, J.D. Read and his daughter Betsy migrated from Philadelphia and established the first school in Falls Church to provide an education previously unavailable to African American children. Ada Gray…

Useful to find the 13 acres of land that William Jasper bought in 1860. Also interesting to note that several of his neighbors were white landowners at this time.

Jasper purchased 13 acres from Thompson Javins, a white farmer and slave owner.
In the Clerk's Office of Fairfax County Court, January 21St, 1861 this deed was received and having been acknowledged before a Justice admitted to record.

These documents include registration documents for William Jasper, his wife Sarah, and his daughters Susan and Eliza, from 1853 and 1858. Especially after Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831, Virginia's free blacks faced copious laws restraining…

Included here are four registrations for Thornton Gray, one in 1834 and one in 1852. Also included is one for Louisa Gray his sister.

In Foote's inventory appraisers valued Jasper at $350. Sarah, in her mid-twenties, was valued at $300. Their daughters, Susan and Eliza, ages 6 and 4, were appraised at $50 each. Exactly when the Jasper family actually left the plantation is…

William Foote, a very prosperous farmer and lawyer, owned land that had once been part of Mount Vernon. His estate was conservatively estimated to be worth $20,000. He owned fifty slaves, a large number for any plantation in the south but…

All attachments for the lessons can be found here. They are saved as separate files, and their names match what is referenced in the unit.

This includes the unit overview and lesson sequence and teacher notes. The Parallel Curriculum Model allows teachers to see the lesson sequence and along side it -- in parallel format -- the reasoning behind the steps. Click on…