The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

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

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 ...

Virginia & The Forging of a Nation at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture explores Virginia’s pivotal role in America’s ...

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 ...