Ana Edwards

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2 Files
Language:
English
Biographical / historical:

Ana Edwards is a public historian and assistant professor in VCU's Department of African American Studies. As founding chair of the Defenders' Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project (2004), and in collaboration with other community organizations, she contributed to the popularization of Gabriel's Rebellion, reclamation of Richmond's first municipal African Burial Ground and helped lead the community campaign to establish a Memorial Park in Shockoe Bottom–a 10-acre area that was central to the city's role as the epicenter of the US domestic slave trade.

Physical facet:
Interview length 1:22:21, includes wav file and pdf transcript

Access and use

Location of collection:
James Branch Cabell Library
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842003
901 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA 23284-2003
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Phone: (804) 828-1108
Fax: (804) 828-0151
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The collection is open to research.
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