Learn about “The Invention and Evolution of Slavery” with Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong Learning Warsaw, VA –Rappahannock Community College’s Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong Learning (RILL) will offer several classes this summer with some held in person and others on Zoom. When the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619, there was no provision in English law for perpetual servitude. It would take most of a century to create the legal structures to support slavery. When those provisions were finally in place, the institution was not static; it continued to change. By the same token, emancipation was not brought about by a single proclamation or victory in battle; it was the result of a struggle that was already under way before the American Revolution began. This class will trace the rise and fall of American Slavery in a series three lectures.