Date/Time
5/1/2024 - 5/15/2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
Sponsors
Event Description
Virginia in the Eighteenth Century, 10:00 a.m. – Noon
This course looks at life in Virginia over the eighteenth century. Themes include the rise of the gentry class, the tobacco economy, slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, demographic change and westward migration, architecture, women and family, the Great Awakening and religious dissent, the Seven Years’ War, and political change and the American Revolution. From its consolidation as a slave society as the century opened to its leading role in the creation of a new nation, this course examines the profound transformations that shaped Virginia in its second hundred years.
Offered in partnership with Rappahannock Community College’s Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong Learning program (RILL). Instructor: Robert Teagle, HCC&M Executive Director. Registration here: rappahannock.edu/foundation/lifelong-learning
This course looks at life in Virginia over the eighteenth century. Themes include the rise of the gentry class, the tobacco economy, slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, demographic change and westward migration, architecture, women and family, the Great Awakening and religious dissent, the Seven Years’ War, and political change and the American Revolution. From its consolidation as a slave society as the century opened to its leading role in the creation of a new nation, this course examines the profound transformations that shaped Virginia in its second hundred years.
Offered in partnership with Rappahannock Community College’s Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong Learning program (RILL). Instructor: Robert Teagle, HCC&M Executive Director. Registration here: rappahannock.edu/foundation/lifelong-learning
Location
Contact Person
Paula Stallard
(phone: 8044382447)
(phone: 8044382447)
Details
Registration here: rappahannock.edu/foundation/lifelong-learning
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