… by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite, and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library. Photographic Credit: Kay Chernush for the …
… constituted the State, and were not numbered among its ‘people or citizens.’ Consequently, the special rights and … IV. 1. The territory thus acquired, is acquired by the people of the United States for their common and equal … time, felt severely the pressure of its war debt; but in Virginia, and some other States, there were large territories …
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