

Virginia's American Revolution: from Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840

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Virginia's American Revolution follows the Virginia revolutionaries from their decision for independence on May 15, 1776, through the following sixty-four years-when the last of them finally passed from the scene.

To their surprise, the decision to break with Great Britain entailed reconsideration of virtually all their major political and social institutions, from the established church, their aristocratic state government, and feudal land tenures, to slavery and their federal relations with the other American states.


All of them were considered against the backdrop of Virginia's decline from preeminence in the Revolution and Early Republic to the position of just another state in the Age of Jackson.
