I’ve been exploring the topic of the Richmond burial ground, which has been extremely interesting to me (horrible, obviously, but fascinating). The first source I chose was an autobiography of sorts written by Christopher McPherson, a free black clerk who lived in Richmond in the late 18th-early 19th centuries, and there’s a paragraph-long excerpt of his observations about the injustice of the burial ground that was quoted in our book. But it was so interesting to look at the full source and see that the burial ground is not the main focus at all – rather, the focus was on McPherson’s religious zeal and fervor, and how he viewed himself and his work of exposing injustices and remedying them as a proxy for God. He wrote letters to European royalty (English and German) and the Pope, and even met with President Madison once after Thomas Jefferson wrote McPherson a letter of introduction.