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Longtime ballet dancer Chloe Bonnet and friend Zeeggy Mercy invited dancers from different backgrounds to participate in a dance routine celebrating diversity in Ottawa's dance community. ....
Whig reported “Mary Jones, alias Mary Jane Henley a likely mulatto girl, about twenty years of age, arrested for being without free papers, was committed for nine days. She was sent to the North about nine years ago, by a highly respectable lady of this city, for the purpose of receiving a thorough education, after completing which she went to Liberia.” The article asserted, “The laws of Virginia positively prohibit the return to this State of any free negro who has lived in a free State,” yet Richards remained in Richmond. This may have been because her freedom was likely de facto, not de jure both Virginia law and stipulations in John Van Lew’s will made it difficult for the Van Lew family to free any of their slaves. If this was indeed the case, Richards likely experienced both the protection of and continued subjection to the Van Lew family. On August 30, at the end of her jail term, the ....