Virginia Convention Passes Declaration of Rights
In Williamsburg, the delegates to the First Virginia Convention adopt the first Declaration of Rights in the western hemisphere. Drafted by George Mason, the document breaks new ground in articulating civil liberties and religious freedom.
See the events in Williamsburg and other cities that created a revolutionary movement.
Follow the ways that religion informed revolutionary thought.
From clothing to theater, trace the impact of taste on empire and revolution.
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