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On the morning of July 11, 1898, Julia Hotopp, then twenty years old, reported having been assaulted by a black man near the gate of her family’s estate, Pen Park, about two and a half miles east of Charlottesville. According to her account, which appeared in that afternoon’s edition of Charlottesville’s Daily Progress newspaper, she had ridden into town between eight and nine o’clock to have her horse shod. Upon returning, she noticed that the gate, normally latched, was instead bound with wire. She freed the gate, but as she turned to remount her horse, “someone approached her from behind and struck her, and then grasped her by the neck, forcing her to the ground, when she became unconscious.” ....
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Brundage writes, world’s fairs and expositions were wildly popular. They put new innovations and ideas on display, celebrating the advance of technology and human progress. One common feature of the fairs was exhibits purporting to reproduce the villages of exotic tribes. This helped to depict a kind of universal progress of humanity, contrasting Africans or other “primitive” people with “modern” white Europeans and Americans. Late nineteenth-century fairs in numerous U.S. cities featured glorified depictions of plantations, with Black people hired to portray content, ignorant enslaved people. When she got the chance to create the diorama for the 1907 Jamestown fair, she jumped at it. ....