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
