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This ledger entry shows that George Mason IV's neighbor Martin Cockburn (1731-1820), a white planter born in Jamaica, paid Gunston Nell, an enslaved woman of Gunston Hall, for her expertise in delivering a baby. This originally hand-written document…

This work was among the medical books willed to George Mason by his uncle, John Mercer.

A drawing of enslaved people fishing in the Albemarle Sound of North Carolina.

This oil painting is a reproduction of the wedding portrait of George Mason IV and Ann Eilbeck Mason (1734-1773); the bride was sixteen-years-old when she married in April 1750 on the Charles County, Maryland, plantation called Mattawoman.

"Inventory of the goods and Chattels belonging to the Estate of George Mason of Lexington deceased taken on the Tenth day of January One thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven"

A photograph of African-American shad fishermen on the James River in Virginia, circa early 1910s

This photograph depicts the recently restored kitchen of Gunston Hall, where enslaved people, especially bondswomen, would have prepared the meals that fed Mason family members and guests.

Another rare image of women and men displaying their fresh catch on the James River in Virginia, 1915.

This photograph of Gunston Hall manor displays the side door, which enslaved people used to enter and exit the house.

This illustration depicts enslaved individuals socializing in a cabin settlement on their Louisiana plantation during the early 1860s.