Explore these articles to learn about different elements of enslavement in Arlington:

• They Lived in Arlington. They Were Enslaved. (Arlington Magazine, February 7, 2024)
• This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington, D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation (Smithsonian Magazine, February 7, 2024)
• Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery from Slavery to Segregation(Southern Spaces Website, April 2, 2019)
• No Perfect Archive: Recovering Histories of Enslaved People at Abingdon Plantation (The Journal of the Civil War Era, 12, no. 4, 2022)
• Employed to Advantage: Hiring and the Enslaved People of Arlington (AHS Magazine, 18, no. 2, 2024)
• Arlington's Camp Casey, Recruitment and Organization of USCT (United State Colored Troops) By Michael Schaffner, Unpublished March 11, 2025.
• Runaway or Fugitive Slave Advertisements and Records of Imprisonment, By Tim Aiken.
• Louisa and Elizabeth: Emancipation Day April 16 Continued, By Terence Walz, DACOR website.  

•  “Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington, Virginia, 1669-1865." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 6, no. 1 (2025): 45-53. Article by Cassandra A. Good, Jessica Kaplan, and Molly Kerr.

• 1862 Compensated Emancipation Act, By David Patrick McKenzie, Ph.D.