Teamoh was born enslaved in 1818 in Norfolk. His parents, David and Lavinia, or Winnie, last names unknown, died when he was a young child. He and the Thomas family that owned him moved to Portsmouth about 1828. He developed a strong bond with the family matriarch, Jane Thomas. When Teamoh was about twelve, he was hired out to another family, where he was treated roughly. In 1832 while working in a brickyard he taught himself to read by listening to white children singing the alphabet in school and identifying words on handbills and posters. His clandestine attempts at literacy were curtailed when the yard’s brickmason discovered the used primer that Teamoh had found. From about 1833 until 1853 he was hired out for a series of jobs but worked mostly around the city’s shipyards as a ship’s caulker and carpenter.
A new Executive Education programme, designed to enable senior level professionals to maximise their organisation’s market penetration, increase revenue and enhance brand awareness, has been launched by Imperial College Business School.The Strategic
A new Executive Education programme, designed to enable senior level professionals to maximise their organisation’s market penetration, increase revenue and enhance brand awareness, has been launched by Imperial College Business School.
The Strategic Brand Transformation Imperial Virtual Programme will enable participants to proactively question and test their assumptions of how to effectively engineer sustained growth, cut wasteful spending and bring positive change to their organisations, at a time when many industries and organisations face an uncertain and untested economic landscape.
Led by Thomas Bayne, Director of MountainView Learning, alongside Imperial’s Dr Omar Merlo, an expert in strategic marketing and customer engagement, the programme will deliberately bring together a range of professionals who hold responsibility for innovation and growth. Over the course of three days, preceded by a five-day orientation period, busines leaders, C-suite executives, strategy
Henry Moseley Bowden was born on April 10, 1819, in James City County, the son of William Bowden and Mildred Davis Bowden, and he grew up on his father’s farm near Williamsburg. As a young man he engaged in farming and built houses. On December 24, 1839, he married Elizabeth A. M. White. After her death he married Esprella Eugenia Ann Ware on December 23, 1841, and they had one daughter. Sometime after his second wife’s death on April 17, 1850, Bowden was married a third time, to a widow, Henrietta Susan Stevens Stubblefield. Their one child, George Edwin Bowden, served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Before the Civil War none of the states south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers had public school systems. In the 1780s and 1810s the former governor Thomas Jefferson recommended creating a statewide school system, and the governors David Campbell and James McDowell made similar recommendations in the 1830s and 1840s. But the Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 refused even to debate a proposal that the state take responsibility to educate its children. White Virginians who could afford it hired tutors or sent their children to private schools. By the middle of the nineteenth century numerous academies for both boys and girls operated throughout Virginia, and some Presbyterian, Catholic, and Episcopal churches sponsored schools. The General Assembly did little more than authorize counties to establish schools for educating paupers. That system, some Virginians complained to the assembly in the mid-1850s, “has been a failure. It has failed to enlist public confidence, because it h