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Painful history of Rappahannock’s Montpelier — as told by William Grimes
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Painful history of Rappahannock’s Montpelier — as told by William Grimes

  • John McCaslin
  • Updated

William Grimes, the fugitive runaway slave who became famous for authoring the first-ever narrative of an enslaved African-American, wrote that he endured continuous physical and mental abuse while kept at Col. William Thornton’s “Montpelier” plantation along today’s F.T. Valley Road in Rappahannock County.