This Week in Black History Month
Lott Carey
It is called Charles City County, Virginia. But there is no city there, not even a town or village in the rural county north of the James River. Early in the 1600s plantations and tobacco farms sprang up along the James, and farming continues to be the main occupation. It was in this rural Virginia county that Lott Carey was born about 1780.
Born into Slavery
Lott was born a slave on the estate of William A. Christian, about thirty miles from Richmond. Though his parents were illiterate, Lott's father was a respected member of the BAPTIST CHURCH. When he was twenty-four, Lott was hired out as a laborer in the Shockhoe tobacco warehouse in Richmond. As a young man he was profane and given to drunkenness. Read more
Jane Waring Roberts
She was born in Petersburg, Virginia and emigrated to Liberia with her parents Colston and Harriet Waring and her siblings in 1824. She married Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia in 1838. She had no children. After her husband's death she resided in England and lived with the Mayor of London, John Archer and his wife until her death.
Though not an appointed missionary, Jane Waring Roberts’ life illustrates the important role of African-American women in the settlement of Liberia. Free women of color, in the North as well as the South, played crucial roles in organizing emigration. Jane Waring Roberts, the daughter of a Baptist minister, immigrated to Liberia from Virginia in 1824. Twelve years later, she became the second wife of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Liberia's first president. In 1887, she started a project to build a hospital at Monrovia. (picture: vcdc.virginia.edu).
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