Among them: George Mason, who authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted by the Virginia Convention in 1776; Jack Jouett, a farmer and state delegate who rode 40 miles to warn Thomas ...

According to a report in The Guardian, Ian Christie-Miller, a former visiting research fellow at London University, examined a first draft of slaveowner George Mason’s 1776 Virginia Declaration ...

Also on display is Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, drafted to grant liberty to free men, yet excluded members of Indigenous Virginia tribes and African Americans.