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Colonial National Historical Park
Williamsburg, VA
Colonial National Historical Park encompasses Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, and Yorktown, site of the decisive Revolutionary War victory. It also tells the story of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English North America in 1619 at nearby Point Comfort, significantly impacting the colony's development.
Counter-Narrative
The myth this site refutes: that enslaved and oppressed people accepted their condition. Every stone here is evidence of refusal.
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Before & After This Era
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Sites in Conversation
"Shared theme: Freedom and Resistance & Slavery"
"Shared theme: Freedom and Resistance & Slavery"
"Shared theme: Freedom and Resistance & Slavery"