11 Results for tag "Virginia Gazette"
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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 …
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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this page discusses the separation of enslaved families and reproduces eighteenth-century sources that use racially outdated language.]When Bernard Moore heard about the sudden death of his brother-in-law John Robinson, he must have felt everything come crashing down.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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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The Virginia Gazettes
There are some surprising things in the pages of the Virginia Gazettes.
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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)
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The Second Virginia Gazette
William Rind (1766–1773)Clementina Rind (1773–1774)John Pinkney (1774–1776)
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The Third Virginia Gazette
William Duncan (1774–1775)John Hunter Holt (1775)
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The Fourth Virginia Gazette
Alexander Purdie (1775–1779)John Clarkson and Augustine Davis (1779–1780)