13 Results for tag "Virginia Gazette"

• Aaron Griffin’s Search for Freedom

  [Note: this page reproduces eighteenth-century sources describing violence against enslaved people and containing racist language.]We don’t know much about Aaron Griffin. We know that he was an enslaved man living in Virginia. We know that he escaped slavery at least five times between 1767 and 1770. We also know that …

• When Enslaved People Were Lottery Prizes

  [Note: this page discusses the separation of enslaved families and reproduces eighteenth-century sources that use racially outdated language.]When Bernard Moore heard about the sudden death of his brother-in-law John Robinson, he must have felt everything come crashing down. He would be ruined. Robinson was one the towering figures of Virginia …

• Slavery and the Virginia Gazette

  [Note: this page reproduces eighteenth-century sources describing violence against enslaved people and containing racist language.]The Virginia Gazettes are one of our best windows onto slavery in early Virginia. Their “runaway” notices document the resistance of enslaved people fleeing bondage. Their pages also brim with advertisements seeking to buy, sell, or …

• 7 Tips for Reading the Virginia Gazette

  Imagine someone scrolling through Facebook or TikTok two centuries from now. It’s hard to believe it would make much sense. Someday soon, the memes, the GIFs, and the dance crazes that sweep through social media will be relics of a forgotten age. Even the language we use will become difficult …

• Who Did I Marry? Margaret Bannerman and the Gold Digger

  [Note: the historical account described below includes domestic violence.]What do you do when you discover that your new husband isn’t the man you thought he was? Margaret Bannerman placed an advertisement in the Virginia Gazette.

• A Bold Type: Clementina Rind’s Revolutionary Press

  Not long after her husband’s funeral, Clementina Rind sat down at his desk, now hers, to write. “Being now unhappily forced to enter upon Business on my own Account,” she wrote, she was obliged to ask the subscribers of her newspaper the Virginia Gazette to “be punctual” in sending payments.Her …

• The Speaker’s Man: John Harris and the Anatomy of a “Runaway” Advertisement

  Less than two hundred words long, this advertisement doesn’t tell us nearly as much as we would like to know about Harris. But when read carefully, it offers some fascinating clues, perhaps more than its author meant, about how Harris might have experienced this revolutionary era.Learn more: The Virginia Gazette …

• Underground Allies: The Incomplete Story of Fanny and Moses

  This blog post is intended for mature audiences and contains terms and phrases that may be inappropriate for a younger audience. The language is used only in its original context and does not reflect Colonial Williamsburg's mission or values.

• The Virginia Gazettes

  There are some surprising things in the pages of the Virginia Gazettes.

• The First Virginia Gazette

  William Parks (1736–1750)William Hunter (1751–1761)Joseph Royle (1761–1766)Alexander Purdie and John Dixon (1766–1774)John Dixon and William Hunter Jr. (1775–1778)John Dixon and Thomas Nicolson (1778–1781)

• The Second Virginia Gazette

  William Rind (1766–1773)Clementina Rind (1773–1774)John Pinkney (1774–1776)

• The Third Virginia Gazette

  William Duncan (1774–1775)John Hunter Holt (1775)

• The Fourth Virginia Gazette

  Alexander Purdie (1775–1779)John Clarkson and Augustine Davis (1779–1780)