pursuing issues that were important to her like education, literacy, and women s health. laura batch, this laura bush, this sunday night. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady, and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 7:00 8:00 p.m. eastern. good morning, everyone, and welcome to american history tv live from colonial williamsburg. on the eve of the american revolution williamsburg, virginia was a bustling capital , home to a large enslaved population. american history tv returns to the williamsburg at the 1770 s where we are live from the historic district. burgesses, where george washington once served, and the governor s palace, home to king george. we will also be taking your questions as we talked to historians, curators, and interpreters that will all be aboard the c-span bust today. joining us is colonial williamsburg president mitchell reiss. thank you for being
on the eve of the american revolution williamsburg, virginia, was a bustling capital city, home to a large enslaved population. american history tv returns to the williamsburg at the 1770 s where we are live from the historic district. we will see revolutionaries and loyalists mingle on the streets. the house of burgesses, where george washington once served, and the governor s palace, home to king george. we will also be taking your questions as we talked to historians, curators, and interpreters that will all be aboard the c-span bust today. joining us is colonial williamsburg president mitchell reiss. thank you for being here this morning, i appreciate it. williamsburg president mitchell reiss. thank you for being here this morning, i appreciate it. mitchell: my pleasure. for someone who has never visited colonial williamsburg, how do you describe it? mitchell: well, i think it is important for people to know it is more than the sum of its parts. you have 88 buildings th
we can put together our own men. if the right men are in control in each of the counties, we can put together our own virginia forces. those very same men talking about my right to the free briton are the same people who write laws to make me chattel property. if i have children, then my children go to my master who can sell and buy us as he sees fit. still they complain about their rights and liberties. and we are back live here on american history tv on c-span 3. we are in the colonial williamsburg historic area, where a c-span bus is at the end of the palace green. aboard the bus this morning is joseph beatty. mr. beatty, our viewers were just watching what happened, the dissolving of the house of burgesses. explain who was governor dunmore. so governor dunmore was the last royal governor of virginia. he came to virginia in 1771. by that point things were already in some state of turmoil. and he stayed through the very earliest parts of the rising conflict as the rev
phone calls and text messages after we show you the short little bit from colonial williamsburg. may 26,id, this depict 1774. we will be back in about 15 minutes and we will be talking with see fit. but they complain about their right to liberty. greta: we are back live on american history tv on c-span3. we are in the colonial williamsburg historic area where the c-span bus is at the end of the palace green in that area.
aboard the bus is historian joseph beatty, manager of historical research and training at colonial williamsburg. our viewers were just watch ing what happened. who was governor dunmore? governor dunmore? joseph: he was the last royal governor of virginia who came to the united states in 1771 when things were in a state of turmoil. he stayed through the very earliest parts of the rising conflict as the revolution started, but left williamsburg in 1775 and left virginia in 1776. greta: why? joseph: things really heated up. what we just saw with the dissolving of the house in some ways really kind of marked a point of no return for any hopes of peaceful reconciliation with the royal government. to,so things really started tension started to rise and people in town, after the house was dissolved the burgesses set up a shadow government and eventually, things sort of came to a head. at the same time that lexington and concorde fought their fight, here in williamsburg we saw orde