The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...

The two men developed such a close bond that the former slave took the Lafayette surname when he became free. Many historians have associated the surname Armistead with James Lafayette ...

Lafayette — sometimes referred to as James Armistead Lafayette — was born enslaved in New Kent County in 1748. He spied for the American military during the Siege of Yorktown, infiltrating ...