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

22/12/2023 25 min Temporada 1 Episodio 57
From Jamestown to Charlottesville: Virginia and America’s racial divide

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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 

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