Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

Did Patrick Henry just lead us into war? Or is that war already upon us? These are the questions we must now confront after ...

(Courtesy of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation) A 1723 law denied free Black men the right to vote for representatives in Virginia’s Colonial legislature, the House of Burgesses. Flora ...

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1607: First permanent English colony in North America was established in Jamestowne. 1661: Virginia's House of Burgesses established the lifelong servitude of Africans. 1790: Virginia's slave ...

As tensions grew between American colonists and the British crown, the strategic importance of the largest, wealthiest colony became clear.