Rooted in the simultaneous pursuit of liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning columnists they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. Hold so today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the first free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just to point in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of thos
Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. So today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just for hundredn time 400 years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of those four centuri
Want to get your calls and comments on the style of President Trumps Foreign Policy. You can join in. If you support his approach is 2027488000. If you oppose it, 2027488001. You can also join us on social cspanwj cspan at or facebook cspan. A very busy program to talk about including our look at 400 years ago the first ever the first africans arriving in virginia. There were slaves in other parts of what was then the spanish colonies in florida, we will focus on 1619 later in the program. He will begin with the president as he arrives at the g7 summit. Headlines, trump orders u. S. To stop bleeding china. The president ordering companies to find an alternative to china to do business after the country slapped tariffs on u. S. Imports. Trump has no legal of four authority to force companies to abandon china and it was unclear what he could do to weed out packages containing fentanyl. The president of the National Retail Federation Said that it would be unrealistic to expect u. S. Compa
A 28 year old churchwarden has been found guilty of murder, to an english cathedral. After tricking his victim, into changing his will for his benefit. Ben field manipulated Peter Farquhar who was 69, duping him into a relationship and then lacing his food with drugs and neat alcohol. However field was found not guilty, of the attempted murder of a retired headmistress who was 83, and whom field also admitted, hed tricked into a relationship. Tom symonds has the story. A respected former teacher and novelist, Peter Farquhar rendered helpless. He had suffered falls, injuries, he had no idea what was going on. I actually. Used to be sort of. That second voice is the man who talked his way into peters life. Despite the age difference, his student, ben field, promised to marry him while secretly lacing peters food with drugs and neat alcohol, killing him slowly for his money. Here is a cold, calculating, devious man, who took pleasure from inflicting both physical and mental torment on his
Millimetres. To the south, more hit and miss, sunshine around, quite but more demoralising than that was the reception i got sharp showers, thunderstorms from African American critics. Reported. The wind is lighter, feeling warmer in the sunshine. This who did not like the book at all. Evening, nights are getting longer. It was, you know, incest and children. They were horrified by it, rain trundling southwards but are and let me know it. How did that make you feel, slow to peter out. Either side of given that you were quite that into monday, sunny spells and showers. Showers eventually fading. Consciously defining yourself as writing out of that experience . More so across the south east compared with today. Despite it i didnt anticipate the venom. Being a drier day, cooler. 16 19, i thought they probably would be below average. I cant remember the upset because i was talking about us in very real, visceral way, last time we had that. We will be ok and it wasnt a happy story. It wasnt