A proposal to research, interpret and promote historic sites of enslaved Virginians and free people of color in America’s founding era just got a boost – a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The trust’s $75,000 grant will help the Montpelier Descendants Committee, kinfolk of people connected with James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange County, devise how to create a national trail to link together such sites. … A multi-year and multimillion-dollar undertaking, the project would involve the state, Virginia Tourism Corporation, the University of Virginia, James Madison Univers...