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… Congress, Pittsburgh, PA DEAR SIR: In the name of the Virginia Scotch-Irish Society, I congratulate the Second … The speaker wished to impress upon the minds of the people that the Society was non-partisan and non-sectarian. … favored the passage of the resolution, as he thought many people did not understand the position of the Society. Dr. …

… Rights scholar. She was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia and is a proud Salvadoreña. Jasselene is the founder … She is compelled by the traditions, art, and culture that people create while reckoning with structural and imperial …

… Max Flomen is an Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University; GLC Visiting Scholar, May 2023 “Beyond … empires. Rebel groups drew their membership from people displaced and exploited by frontier conditions – …

… they saw themselves, like the Israelites, as a chosen people. North America was the new Promised Land. The Native … argue that a young boy of African descent born in the Virginia Colony in 1690 was a captive of war. His mother … to slavery. Christians used this to justify enslaving people of African descent. Why is 1690 the origin for white …

… American Freedom, American Slavery: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: Norton, 1975).  … Nell Painter. History of White People (New York: Norton, 2010).  https://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742 “Slavery and Its Legacies” …

… Land, ca. 1754-1791, S. Max Edelson, University of Virginia Seed Sharing in the US Patent Office, 1836-1861, … Workers and Bodies in Agricultural Improvement Feeding People and other Animals in the Eighteenth Century, Anya … Improving Livestock and Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Virginia and Jamaica, Joshua Kercsmar, Valparaiso University …

… Historical Society, the John Carter Brown Library, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, and the University of Virginia’s Nau Center for Civil War History. At the Beinecke, … the conflict surrounding the contested legal rights of people accused of being fugitive slaves and argues that their …

… History.  She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Her most recent book,   Affairs of Honor: National … of the Civil War. 203-432-1392 http://history.yale.edu/people/joanne-freeman 320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511-3627 …

… which will examine overlapping forced migrations of free people across the Mid-Atlantic, Upper South and Ohio Valley … Free: A Story about Family & Race in Antebellum Virginia  ( Book on Amazon ) ​ You can email comments and …

… unconditional abolitionism in Boston, an event happened in Virginia, which, from the opposite side, contributed … excitement throughout the entire south, and especially in Virginia and the states contiguous to it, was out of all … accident that at the same time the legislature of Virginia was forced by another cause to engage in an …

… was modelled after American state constitutions like the Virginia Bill of Rights, which was seen by Jellenik as the … American Revolution “remains challenged,” stating that the Virginia Bill of Rights was only the first formal … was met with a round of applause, and a number of people had questions and comments. Overall, participants were …