250 Virginia, 1619
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
2019 marks the 400th anniversary of two important events in American History: The creation of the first representative assembly in English North America and the arrival of the first African people in English North America.
Why were these Virginia-based events significant and how have they impacted American history?
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a scholar of African American and American History and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk State University, helps us find answers.
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's World is a production of the |
| 0:02.0 | O'Mohandro Institute, and production of this episode |
| 0:05.0 | was made possible by a grant from the Roller |
| 0:07.1 | Bottimore Foundation of Richmond, Virginia. Hello and welcome to episode 250 of Ben Franklin's World. |
| 0:22.6 | The podcast dedicated to helping you, |
| 0:25.0 | learn more about how the people and events |
| 0:26.8 | of our early American past |
| 0:28.3 | have shaped the present day world we live in. |
| 0:30.6 | And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. |
| 0:33.0 | 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of two important events in American history. |
| 0:38.0 | And those important events are the creation of the first representative assembly in English North America and the arrival of the first |
| 0:44.0 | African people in English North America. |
| 0:47.3 | So for this, our 250th episode of Ben Franklin's world, we're going to investigate why the Virginia 1619 |
| 0:54.8 | anniversaries are important. Why the creation of the first representative assembly and |
| 0:58.8 | why the arrival of the first African people in English North America matter and how these events have impacted |
| 1:04.8 | American history. |
| 1:07.0 | Leading us on our investigation is Cassandra Newby Alexander. |
| 1:11.5 | Cassandra is a scholar of African American and American history, the dean of Norfolk State University's College of the Liberal Arts, and a member of Virginia's 2019 commemoration Commission. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, as Cassandra takes us through the world of 1619, |
| 1:25.4 | she reveals details about the Virginia Company |
| 1:28.5 | and the establishment of James Town and the Virginia Colony. |
| 1:31.8 | When and why the Virginia Company ordered its colonists in Virginia to found a limited representative |
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