News from The Kanawha Valley Village People January 20, 2018 Vol. 6, No. 1 KVVP Sponsors Historical Lecture The Role of Slavery in the Kanawha Valley Salt Industry The Kanawha Valley Village People will present an historical lecture at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday,...
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News from The Kanawha Valley Village People January 20, 2018 Vol. 6, No. 1 KVVP Sponsors Historical Lecture The Role of Slavery in the Kanawha Valley Salt Industry The Kanawha Valley Village People will present an historical lecture at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18 at the African Zion Baptist Church in Malden. The lecture, “Salt and Slavery: The Early Kanawha Valley in Black and White,” will be presented by Cyrus Forman. Forman will explore the reliance on slave labor in the development of the salt industry in the Kanawha Valley in the early nineteenth century. DUTCH TREAT DINERS KEEP KVVP ‘SOCIAL!” KVVP members and guests enjoyed social dinners at Bricks and Cyrus Forman is a native of Barrels (above) in January; and, at the Tidewater (below) in December. Charleston, West Virginia and a doctoral candidate in American History at the University of Washington. He began working on View of the salt works on the Kanawha River at Kanawha Salines, 1843, from a sketch by Henry Howe (reproduced
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