Event Name:
May 1, 8 and 15 - Virginia in the Eighteenth Century
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




 
Event Date:
05-01-24 - 05-15-24
Event Time:
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Location:
Historic Christ Church & Museum
420 Christ Church Road
Weems, VA 22576
Contact Person:
Paula Stallard
(phone: 8044382447)
Details:
Registration here: rappahannock.edu/foundation/lifelong-learningLinks:
http://christchurch1735.org