Freeman, Virginia

Freeman is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia, formally Totaro.

The oral history that is shared by members of the Union Bethel RZUA Church[1] tells of two or three enslaved persons, some by the last name of Callis.

The brothers, Rufin and Ira, were told by their enslaver in Louisiana that they would be given their freedom and a certain amount of gold if he did not return alive from the Civil War.

[2] When it became known that the enslaver had died, in 1866 the two brothers, now free, walked for about ten days to Totaro, Virginia.

To this day, members of the Callis[4] and Robertson families own tract of lands in Freeman, Virginia.