Search Click to return to the Virginia Historical Society homepage Online Exhibitions
The Story of Virginia

Home > Becoming Southerners > Slave pass

Story of Virginia Teachers Guide Click to view images and documents Credits Comments

Becoming Southerners

Slave pass

Slave pass

Pewter slave passport inscribed "Aunt Jemima Johnston, Born 1799, Nicholas Plantation, Warrenton, Virginia." The other side crudely depicts "the big house" and the slave quarters.

Image rights owned by the Virginia Historical Society. Do not use without permission. Rights and reproductions