Norfolk has been a center of African-American life since this country's humble beginnings, when indentured African servants arrived in 1619 to the Tidewater reg

Very few studies of free blacks have attempted to interpret the actions and events affecting them from their own perspectives. At the same time. the search for

This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-centur