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Antebellum Literature and Thought, 2009-11

In this Virginia History Blog on five titles related to Antebellum literature and thought, we begin by looking at “The Origins of Proslavery Christianity” that documents developments among Virginia’s white and black evangelicals from colonial times into the antebellum period. “Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia” develops the conflicts within its white and...

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New Nation and Antebellum Eras – Spring 2018

In this Virginia History Blog, we present a digest of five reviews related to Virginia in both the New Nation and Antebellum periods. Particularly New Nation time frame are “The Framer’s Coup” in making the Constitution, and “Ties That Bound”. Three journals recently reviewed “Ties That Bound” concerning First Ladies and slaves, and two books...

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Free blacks, Artisans and Slave Hires

In this Virginia History Blog, we explore the developments leading antebellum Virginia to hold the largest free black population, with artisans free and slave, with slave hires for industrial work and construction on canals and railroads. Virginia 1820-1860 was a slave state with an emerging market economy, industrialization and substantial out-migration of whites and blacks....

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Jacksonian Antebellum Virginia part two

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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Jacksonian Antebellum Virginia part one

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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