In which I interview Robert Russa Moton Museum Education Director Cainan Townsend for American Evolution: Virginia to America 1619-2019. Cainan discusses how a group of African-American high school students led a 1951 protest which had a major influence on Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights movement that soon followed.

In which the events leading up to and of the infamous 1622 Opechancanough led massacre are narrated.

In which the disastrous political situation surrounding the Virginia Company of London and is brought to her demise is recounted.

In which the New World's first representative government, the House of Burgesses, is outlined.

In which the arrival of Virginia's first women and Africans is detailed.

In which the details of the First Thanksgiving, which took place in 1619 Virginia, is narrated.

In which the continued growth along the James River is outlined detailing the first ironworks, the first representative government, the first Thanksgiving, and other changes stemming from the newest plantations being founded in Virginia.

In which L.B. Taylor's Essay about Shirley Plantation's Haunted Aunt Pratt is read for this Halloween Special Podcast.

In which the Company realizes that they have no other choice but to offer land to investors, and that land is transformed into vibrant plantations.

In which details concerning Henricus being further fortified and Thomas Dale's shifting power up the James River in order to establish a series of plantations along the James River is recounted.