Officials at the University of Virginia held a ceremony this month naming one of its campus buildings in honor of Peyton Skipwith, a former slave who quarried stone for some of the early structures at the Charlottesville school.

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Officials at the University of Virginia held a ceremony this month naming one of its campus buildings in honor of Peyton Skipwith, a former slave who quarried stone for some of the early structures at the Charlottesville school.
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