Presented by Daniel Thorp, Professor Virginia Tech, Author

Annual Meeting at 7:00 p.m. • Program starts at 7:30 p.m.

Flora was an enslaved woman living in Suffield, Connecticut, who in 1781 ran away to be with her husband in Massachusetts. Her owner recaptured Flora and sold her. She spent the rest of her life enslaved in Virginia. 60 years after her mother’s second enslavement, Unis, Flora’s daughter and other family members sued for their freedom. It was the longest-running freedom suit in Virginia history.

📍 Suffield Volunteer Ambulance, 205 Bridge Street

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Image courtesy of The UncommonWealth from the Library of Virginia