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Politics in Colonial Virginia
Pre-Independence
- Virginia Time Line, 1760-1776
- Historical Background-from the Stamp Act Crisis to Revolution
- Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act
- Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
- William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act
- Print image: The Repeal, Or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp (75k)
- Print image: The Alternative of Williamsburg (105k)
- Words to the song The Glorious Seventy Four
- Summary View of the Rights of British America
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
- "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death"
- Virginia Declaration of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Post-Independence
- United States Articles of Confederation
- United States Constitution
- Amendments to the United States Constitution
- George Washington's First Inaugural Address
- George Washington's Second Inaugural Address
- Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
- Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address
Biographical Material:
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Wythe
- St. George Tucker
- The Randolph family and slaves
- Patrick Henry
- Richard Henry Lee (fact sheet)
- George Mercer (fact sheet)
- John Robinson (fact sheet)
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Multimedia and related links
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Podcasts
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We hold these truths
Hear the words that started a war, read by Thomas Jefferson interpreter Bill Barker. Episode one of July's Revolutionary Documents series. June 30, 2008
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A Slave's Perspective
The Declaration of Independence was a promise extended to white men only. Hope Smith portrays Eve, a slave in the Peyton Randolph house. July 16, 2007
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The Slave Trade
The slave trade touched the lives of people around the globe, explains Colonial Williamsburg's Educational Program Development director Bill White. February 9, 2007
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Mr. Wythe's Cook
Valarie Holmes interprets Lydia Broadnax - a cook for one of Williamsburg's most influential men. June 19, 2006
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Emily James interprets spirited women
Jamaican-born Emily James has interpreted at least 16 different 18th-century women who learned how to survive lives of enslavement. February 27, 2006
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Recalling African American Interpretation
Rex Ellis reflects on 25 years of interpreting the African American experience in the colonial period. February 6, 2006
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Journal articles
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Debating the Bill of Rights
"What No Government Should Refuse, or Rest on Inference"
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Fighting... Maybe for Freedom, but probably not
Slaves and free blacks in the Revolutionary War
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Slave Conspiracies in Colonial Virginia
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Finding Slaves in Unexpected Places
Keeping Blacks in Bondage Was Not a Southern Monopoly
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Daily jigsaw puzzles
Historic Triangle
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