Listen "From Jamestown to Charlottesville: Virginia and America’s racial divide"
Episode Synopsis
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