LIBERTY

&

SLAVERY

SLAV

"By beginning with Columbus, Bancroft made the United States nearly three centuries older than it was, a many-feathered old bird."

What does freedom mean in Virginia?

freedom

RED HILL, VIRGINIA

RED HILL

RED

HILL

PARSONS' CAUSE

THE STAMP ACT

P ACT

Grenville

1765

LANDON CARTER'S SPOON

LANDON CAR

The Stamp Act would "involve us in the most abject slavery ..."

HUMPHRY

 PLOUGHJOGGER

 PLOUGH

GG

"... till custom and use, will make us tame, & abject Slaves, as the Blacks we Rule over with such arbitrary Sway." — GW

RESOLVED ...

RES

GIVE ME LIBERTY

LIBERTY

SAINT

JOHN'S

WAS INDEPENDENCE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SLAVERY?

HENRY

B

ROWN

(Kent Barton)

Devil's Dark

The

b. 1815

LOUISA COUNTY

COUNTY

1815

 

Henry sang
in the choir

First African Baptist Church, Richmond

SOLD

Now she was gone

N

THE BOX

OX

RESURRECTION

SU

HE SANG

HE

NEVER FORGET

GET

MY FAMILY

MY

OLLI Class 2

By Encyclopedia Virginia

OLLI Class 2

Patrick Henry / Henry Box Brown

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