to a creator, a supreme judge, or divine providence. he also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. this class took place at georgetown university and is an hour and 45 minutes. it was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. good morning, everyone. aren t you a smart-looking set this morning. the topic today is religion and the american revolution. you recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. that s what i was calling them. so we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, greco-roman, but primarily roman. we looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. and we deferr
good afternoon. good afternoon. it s great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. the food was wonderful. we welcome you again to this .unch panel plenary session i m going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. i am happy to introduce our panel moderator. professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the college institute for african-american studies at the university of virginia. she has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by african-american women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to african-american literature. me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you, marcus. thank all of you for your presence. thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i t
this was part of the symposium held at the university of virginia in charlottesville. good morning. in celebration of the bison telling bicentennial, we welcome you to the symposium. universities, slavery, and the public built landscape, presented by the university of virginia commission on slavery and the university, in partnership with the slave dwelling projects fourth annual projects. on vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, the professor and i cochair the present s cochair the commission on slavery. the slave dwelling project led mr. joe mug gill and board of directors the slave dwelling project brings attention to sites, people, history, and ways in which the slave contributed to building and sustaining this country. i say 70 to 80 because the temperature dropped about 39 last night. i m not totally sure. they said they had experienced. humility and a better appreciation for those who live their daily lives is one intent of such an experienc
republicanism. roman, greco-roman, but primarily roman. enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. that s where we are today. you recall this image of the missouri river and its headwaters. great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. these are the headwaters of the missouri river, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. and in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. classical republicanism to the left there. enlightenment liberalism. and protestant christianity. that s where we are, looking at protestant christianity. this is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awak
to situate the presidential plantations back into the history of slavery. or to situate slavery back into the history of the presidential plantations. not entirely sure. i went back and forth on how to say that. i m not entirely sure which is the right way to say it. the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have raised the obvious that heavy raced that have erased obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. everyone here on this panel, and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume slavery is some sort of addition or add on to the presidential histories, but the two are inextricable. to that end i m excited to hear each of this afternoon s speakers talk about the work they are undergoing at the presidential plantations. i will introduce all of them now in the order in which they will speak. we planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the end for the panelists i