Join us June 7 at 2:00pm as part of Andrew Lewis Weekend to hear the fantastic story of the expulsion of Lord Dunmore, featuring Dr. Nicole Dressler!
Lord Dunmore was the last royal governor of Virginia, and his story of intensifying the friction between the colonists and Great Britain is not a simple one. In 1775, Dunmore fatefully removed gunpowder from the Williamsburg magazine, which sparked public outcry and, later, powerfully incited revolutionary fervor. His actions, combined with the growing patriot movement as well as the fear of slave rebelliousness, engendered a series of events that would lead to Virginia’s participation in an armed conflict and support for independence from Britain.
Dr. Nicole Dressler is a historian of early America and the Atlantic world and an Associate Teaching Professor of History at William & Mary. She specializes in unfree labor, the development of abolition, and humanitarianism. She has published in Early American Studies and is currently working on a book manuscript that explores convict servitude, antislavery, and prison reform during the long eighteenth century. Her research has been supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the Global Humanitarianism Research Academy, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
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