This is the third of four blogs focusing on African American history in antebellum Virginia. We look at resistance by those held in slavery, including rebellion and escape to freedom. “The River Flows On” includes New York, South Carolina and two Virginia revolts, while “Gabriel’s Rebellion” focuses on conspiracies in 1800 and 1802. Nat Turner’s...
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We begin the second of four blogs focusing on African American History in Antebellum Virginia with a look at the rise of the domestic slave trade after the legal prohibition of the trans-Atlantic trade in the Middle Passage from Africa with “A Troublesome Commerce” and “Carry Me Back”. At the same time half a million...
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We begin the first of four blogs focusing on African Americans in Antebellum Virginia with a look at the enslaved themselves in North America and Virginia in “Generations of Captivity”, then “The Slaveholding Republic” looks at the U.S. Government’s complicity in the slavery establishment throughout the South and in western territories. “The World the Slaveholders...
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We continue our look at Jacksonian Antebellum Virginia by looking at the “Yankeefication” of Virginia with “Rise of the Whigs” and “Migrants Against Slavery”. The classic “Road from Monticello” investigates the Slavery Debate of 1831-32, as does the “Drift Towards Dissolution” referring to the Virginia’s east-west sectional division. “Road to Disunion” examines the political currents...
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We begin our first of two blogs on Jacksonian Antebellum Virginia political history in the years 1810-1850 by first looking at “Sectionalism in Virginia” east and west, “Intellectual Life in the American South” with important Virginia contributions, and “The Second American Party System” explaining the growth of political parties in the states rather than Congressional...
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