We begin our look at titles about antebellum Virginia as a slave state 1824-1860 with two studies of slave rebellion. “Whispers of Rebellion” explores the slave agency in the 1800 Gabriel Conspiracy, and “”The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood” describes the 1830 Nat Turner Rebellion and its aftermath. We continue our antebellum Virginia reviews...
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Religion in New Nation Virginia
Looking again at religion in New Nation Virginia, “Wellspring of Liberty” explores the role of religious dissenters in the American Revolution and their subsequent efforts to secure religious liberty in the New Nation period. “Establishing Religious Freedom” in Virginia traces the evolution from dissenter toleration to religious freedom of conscience. “Bodies of Belief” compares and...
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Revolution and New Nation revisited
We begin our revisit to Virginia’s Revolution and New Nation era with the political history “Dunmore’s New World” about the last royal governor in Virginia, followed by the “Accommodating Revolutions”, a case study of the Revolutionary period in the Northern Neck. We then look at two titles addressing African American slave agency during war and...
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Life in 1700s Virginia
Life in 1700s Virginia is explained by two of the four British folkways transmitted in major immigration streams that established persistent cultural expressions even with subsequent settlements in “Albion’s Seed”. Life in the Church of England parish in colonial Virginia is described in “A Blessed Company, and the religious practices of the gentry are explained...
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Frontier and Imperial Virginia 1730-1763
We return to Late Colonial history with Frontier and Imperial Virginia 1730-1763 that ends with the conclusion of the French and Indian War. “In the Absence of Towns” looks at the frontier of piedmont Southside Virginia. “Gentry and Commonfolk” consider the class relations on the Virginia frontier from 1730 through the Revolution. “Diversity and Accommodation”...
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Tobacco with Slaves in Late Colonial Virginia
We begin our look at the cultivation of tobacco with slaves in Late Colonial Virginia by focusing on the transition from the white indentured cash crop labor force to the hereditary African-descent cultivation of tobacco. “Tobacco and Slaves” studies the formation of the slave-plantation society in the Chesapeake, “Motives of Honor, Pleasure & Profit” explains...
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The Royal Colony in 1600s Virginia
Our second look at the royal colony in 1600s Virginia begins with a look at how the English immigrants in the Chesapeake built their society. “Adapting to a New World” describes the English overseas, “Ann Orthwood’s Bastard” shows how English customary and common law was modified for producer-planter interests, and “The Formation of a Society”...
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Jamestown in Virginia 1607-1620s
In this blog we look at the early colony of Virginia in Jamestown, 1607-1620s, the period of struggle resulting in an English template for future colonial success after a succession of near disasters. “A Tale of Two Colonies” looks at the contemporary English colonization efforts in Virginia and Bermuda of the early 1600s. “Pocahontas and...
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Powhatan in Virginia (Tsenacomacoh)
In our first revisit to Early Colonial era 1600-1763, we begin with Powhatan in Virginia part one. The “Powhatan Landscape” describes what would become Virginia from 500 B.C.E. to the early 1600s. “Commoners, Tribute and Chiefs” explains the Algonquin civilization focusing on the Potomac Valley Chicagoan tribe. “Nature and History in the Potomac Country” looks...
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New Dominion in Virginia part two
In the New Dominion Virginia 1970-present part two, we look at four ways the Virginia cultural landscape changed, with the G.I. Bill in “Soldiers to Citizens”, with the growth of suburbia in “Crabgrass Frontier”, with regionalizing by automobile and trucks in “Divided Highways”, and state resource management with “The Oyster Question”. Modern social history is...
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