12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR
Music Theater Building 1006
Section Information for Spring 2023
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. After the American Revolution, it remained the most populous and influential state in the new United States well into the nineteenth century. Virginia’s history is thus central to the history of British America and the United States, and it embodies many of the contradictions, tensions, and ironies of that history. It produced a powerful, educated elite who helped lead the nation towards independence and liberty, but it also encompassed the conquest and dispossession of native peoples, the exploitation of poor men and women who sought freedom in the new world, and the development of 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 contacts 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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