![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Henry (1732-1794) was the author of the Leedstown Resolutions. This year’s observance will feature interpreters portraying the disparate brothers Philip Ludwell Lee and Richard Henry Lee and their outspoken sister Hannah Lee Corbin - all of whom would have attended Yeocomico Church. The document was a forerunner of the Declaration of Independence ten years later. The famous resolutions were the first protest of “taxation without representation” and were directed to the British monarchy. at historic Yeocomico Church near Kinsale in Westmoreland County. Leedstown Resolutions Sowed Seed of RevolutionĪ spirited sibling squabble will highlight The Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society’s annual commemoration of the 1766 Leedstown Resolutions on Saturday, Feb. Friends from around the community came together to commemorate the anniversary of this monumental event that took place in Virginia’s Northern Neck and sparked a revolution. The event also featured guest speakers, descendants of the original Signers, living history interpreters, and more. Frank, who was living in Loudon at the time, was the only representative of his county to sign the Resolves. Former Board of Trustee and current chair of the President’s Council for the Menokin Foundation, Steve Walker, spoke eloquently on the history of the Leedstown Resolves and the people who signed this historic document. To commemorate the anniversary of these Resolves, the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society co-sponsored an event with Stratford Hall (Frank’s boyhood home) at their Council House. If, therefore, any person or persons shall attempt, by any action, or proceeding, to deprive this Colony of these fundamental rights, we will immediately regard him or them, as the most dangerous enemy of the community…” “As we know it to be the Birthright privilege of every British subject (and of the people of Virginia as being such)… that he cannot be taxed, but by consent of Parliament, in which he is represented by persons chosen by the people, and who themselves pay a part of the tax they impose on others. These Resolves, penned by Frank’s brother, Richard, were in response to the Stamp Act of 1765 and taxation without representation by Parliament. What were these Resolves? They were one of the first public acts against the crown, paving the road to revolution. Our own, Francis Lightfoot Lee, signed this historic document along with his brothers: Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Ludwell Lee, and William Lee. and Europe about the social and economic repercussions of automation, cybernation, and the restructuring of the labor market and society.Saturday Februwas the 250 th anniversary of the Leedstown Resolves. My current research interests focus on the 1950s/60s debates in the U.S. ![]() My teaching at Leipzig University revolved around the process of deindustrialization and its social and economic consequences in the Detroit-Windsor region and the North Atlantic, and the history of the 1967 Detroit Riot. Bringing together intellectual history with urban studies, political economy, and cultural history, I wrote my MA thesis about Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs. Also academically, Metropolitan Detroit became my spatial focal point. One result of these growing interests was Growing Together Detroit, an alternative summer break program I helped setting up with activists from Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Repair the World (Detroit), and the Eden Gardens Block Club. During my time in Detroit, the processes and issues that have shaped the Metropolitan Detroit region over the course of the 20th and 21st century started to interest me. In 2013/14, I spent a year at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI as a Service for Peace Fellow through the Service for Peace program of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace. (2016) in American studies from Leipzig University and spent two semesters at Ohio University in 2011 as a BA Plus Fellow. Before coming to U-M, I worked as an Adjunct Assistant Lecturer at the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University, Germany from 2017 to 2019, and as a Guide for the Germany Close Up program. ![]()
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