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Signature Speaker Series - A Place Apart - Bound Labor in Virginia’s Upper Northern Neck, 1645-1710
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Historic Christ Church, 420 Christ Church Road, Weems, VADates & Times
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Join George Washington Birthplace National Monument and the rest of the Northern Neck of Virginia in preparing for America's 250th birthday by exploring stories of the land and people. The signature speaker series for 2024 will focus on The Power of Place.
Bound laborers such as white servants and enslaved Africans were essential in early English Virginia, supplying the necessary labor to produce profit from tobacco for the colony’s landowners. This was even more important in Virginia’s “upper” Northern Neck region given that a less desirable strain of tobacco, oronoco, was grown there. Join Dr. Steven Harris-Scott as he explores how this difference had significant implications on the pattern of Northern Neck bound labor in the 18th century.
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