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Join Red Hill’s Historian & Genealogist of African American History, Peighton Young, for a look into the lives of those enslaved at Red Hill after Patrick Henry’s death. This virtual talk will be streamed LIVE on Red Hill’s social media pages.

About the talk:

Following Patrick Henry’s death on 6 June 1799, the lives of the sixty-seven people he enslaved at Red Hill changed forever. In Henry’s will, he gave his widow, Dorothea Henry, her choice of twenty enslaved people from his estate, as well as the power to divide the remaining forty-seven enslaved people amongst their children and grandchildren.

In the thirty-two years that followed Patrick Henry’s death, the people Dorothea Henry enslaved faced a series of traumatic family and community separations as she married her second husband, Judge Edmund Winston, and eventually moved away from Charlotte County, Virginia. New research into the history of the enslaved community at Red Hill and other plantations in the surrounding counties examines the lives of the people Dorothea Henry Winston enslaved, tracing their experiences from Red Hill to other properties located throughout Southside Virginia.