"Dangerous Harbor, a partnership between Virginia State University, Virginia Tech...represents the first large-scale effort to make accessible stories of escape from enslavement and servitude in the 17th-century Chesapeake."
uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov
In 1673, a Black woman named Pendall escaped with her son from the Accomack County plantation of Tabitha Browne, where they were enslaved. They stole a boat and crossed the Chesapeake from the Eastern...
