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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We look at the social history of the New Nation from perspectives of Virginia migration among whites and blacks in “Bound Away”. A structural analysis of the Constitution and its pro-slavery uses by Courts and Congresses in the New Nation is considered in “Slavery and the Founders”. “Plowshares into Swords” looks at the development of...
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The New Nation was defined by Thomas Jefferson’s presidency and the political party he built occupying the White House for 24 continuous years of the Constitution’s first 36 years. “Jefferson’s America” gives us a political survey from 1760 to 1815, now in its third edition. The transformations both democratic and commercial are conveyed in “The...
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We begin our survey of Virginia’s early New Nation history with two surveys of the Federalist Era, “The Old Dominion and the New Nation” and “Chesapeake Politics”. The last two relate to the bulwarks of provincial establishment in county governments , “Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers” and “Juries and Judges versus the Law”. For book...
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To look at the creation of the Constitution and its beginning in the New Nation in Virginia, we begin with two surveys explaining the Articles of Confederation and the new Constitution, one developing political and intellectual history in “Creation of the American Republic”, the other emphasizing economic and social history in “The Forging of the...
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