Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History | August 1, 2006| | Copyright

Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia. By Douglas B. Chambers. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c. 2005. Pp. x, 325. $45.00, ISBN 1-57806-706-5.)

In 1732 three enslaved Afro-Virginians--Pompey, Turk, and Dido--were convicted of poisoning Ambrose Madison. Despite the fact that he was the grandfather of President James Madison, his murder has been largely overlooked in the historical record. Douglas B. Chambers uses the slim evidence surrounding the murder to imaginatively reconstruct the slave community on Madison's plantation and in the ...

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