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Share our appreciation for friends and partners gathered today and acknowledge the leadership of the administration, the General Assembly, american evolution and jamestown your town foundation. Our special appreciation to our partners managing historic jamestown, the National Parks servic service, tribal represents, descendants and members of the society. On this site 400 years ago. Twishd speakers to follow me will kpir the importance of those proceedings and the direct influ i will focus on the persistent efforts of women. It would have been lost if not for the vision and dedication of women...

Dr. Gregory d. Smithers, an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university, specializes in native American History, hes the author of several books including the cherokee diaspora an indigenous history of migration, resettlement and identity, about which greg spoke here a few years ago. And his newest book on the subject of todays lecture, native southerners indigenous history from origins to remov removal. So please give a warm welcome to our friend, greg smithers. [ applause ] let me first begin by acknowledging the traditional landowners of this region. Members of the po...

Begins to develop a social meaning even though we will be looking at addiction in america ive mentioned that one of the things we will focus on is not america but on england and specifically a man named thomas to quincy so today you have an expert and you read a little about him but who can start us off and tell us who was this man. He was an upperclass early 19th century considered himself a classical philosopher and came to use opium for the relief of a toothache in 1804 and, eventually developed it into a recreational enhancement he enjoyed the opera and the dream state from the transit bro...

Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac and what slavery did. So we try to soften it, its part of our bargaining. So inevitably somebody was going to ask the question and they did every day, well, are they good to you . Slavery isnt that bad, is it . I mean, look how youre dressed, at least you have your children with you. And, you know, it would be that kind of thing, which was, you know, no matter how well intentioned, its still annoying. Fortunately enough i was playing a character where i could let that be known. But the problem was that we were doing the work of the househol...

From virginia, colonial virginia records, and we know very Little Information about them, but we have bits and pieces of early history. What do we know . It was 20. They were not listed as enslaved, they were listed as servants. They came and were pretty sick when they got off the ships, they lived in virginia. Some of them created families, were the first generations of African Americans in this country. And who were they . I mean children, women, men . Men and women. There was two or three women, the rest were men. And they had their own families, and they established the early communities i...