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

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