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Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge

The edge of what? The edge of environmental collapse, epidemic disease, economic failure, family madness, resistance by those who were enslaved and of Southampton County, the locus of Nat Turner’s attempted revolution.

LIVESTREAM THE TALK HERE.

 


 

Join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, at 5:00 pm Eastern Time in William & Mary’s Glenn Close Theatre, Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, 601 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, for a talk by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor.

No advance registration is necessary. Seating is first-come, first-seated. Doors open at 4:30 pm.

A reception with immediately follow the talk in the PBK Lobby.

Parking on campus is open to all on Saturday. No pass is required.

 


 

Read more and register for this year’s “For 2026” conference, “Virginia’s Revolutionary Histories & Beyond.”