12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW
East Building 122
Section Information for Fall 2016
The history of Virginia provides an ideal point of entry into the larger history of colonial and revolutionary America. Virginia was England’s first permanent settlement in the New World, and by the eighteenth century it was the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful British mainland colony. It produced both a powerful, educated elite who helped lead the nation towards independence and liberty and a brutal system of chattel slavery that denied human independence and liberty at their most fundamental levels. This class will trace that complex and often contradictory history from the first contact between Europeans and native peoples, through the American Revolution, and into the early decades of the nineteenth century.
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Credits: 3
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