"Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, and ‘Light-horse Harry’ Lee: A Complicated Dance"

  • Sat, Oct 9, 2021 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

  • Stratford Hall

    483 Great House Road
    Stratford, Virginia 22520
Ticket Price $0.00-$10.00 This event is now over
Description

In 1788, Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee led the effort in Virginia to block ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they believed it created a government too powerful and distant from the people; the presidency "squints towards monarchy," Patrick Henry warned. At the time, Henry (Light-horse Harry) Lee was a leading federalist. In 1799, Henry Lee, working with George Washington, convinced Patrick Henry to come out of retirement to defend the Constitution against Thomas Jefferson's radical states' rights agenda that threatened the union. How these three -- Richard Henry Lee, Henry Lee, and Patrick Henry -- interacted in the complex negotiations for the U.S. Constitution and then fought to preserve it is a largely untold story with great relevance for our time.

Join Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello historian, John Ragosta, as he shares insight into this largely untold story.

Location: duPont Library at Stratford Hall; In-person only

Price: $10; Free for Friends of Stratford Members

Masks required for indoor events. 

Date & Time

Sat, Oct 9, 2021 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Venue Details

Stratford Hall

483 Great House Road
Stratford, Virginia 22520 Stratford Hall
Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Inc.

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. There are few places in America where people can travel down small, rural roads to arrive at a vast site that preserves so many aspects of early-American life, from the Great House where the influential Lee family helped to forge a new nation, to the fields worked by enslaved Africans, to the waters of the rivers that fueled trade, to the ground, which still yields secrets about the people and animals that lived before.

Come experience this extraordinary place and learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago - a history that continues to educate, inspire, and influence Americans to the present day.


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