From Jamestown to Charlottesville: Virginia and America’s racial divide

Dec 22, 2023

In this episode, the hosts discuss the leading role that Virginia has played in the racial divide in America’s history.  Home to the Founding Fathers and Capital of the Confederacy, the state has been the crucible of the ideals which built this country and the ideas which would tear it apart.

 

Washington, DC History

 

https://washington.org/DC-information/washington-dc-history

 

Virginia 1619

 

https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/06/virginia-is-birthplace-american-slavery-segregation-it-still-cant-escape-that-legacy/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Virginia_political_crisis.

 

https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/873

  

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-white-supremacy-came-to-virginia/

 

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/an-act-concerning-servants-and-slaves-1705/

 

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-founding-fathers

 

https://www.monticello.org/exhibits-events/livestreams-videos-and-podcasts/enslaved-on-grounds-slavery-at-the-university-of-virginia/#:~:text=From%20Thomas%20Jefferson's%20founding%20of,nation's%20most%20prestigious%20public%20universities

 

 

Florida Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-history-never-equal-never-protected-first-stop/id1485019282?i=1000623777868 

 

Indiana Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-history-never-equal-never-protected-up-north/id1485019282?i=1000627180421