barbara clark smith is our scholar from the smithsonian. she is curator of the division of political hiss or at the national museum of american history. her new book is "the freedoms we lost" consent and resistance in revolutionary america. in this and other publications, clark smith writes about politics and a sharp social historian site for drama and detail. she co-curated a favorite exhibition of mine called jamestown, quÉbec and santa fe, three north american beginning in 2006. john ragosta is an historian and lawyer, our second speaker. he teaches at the uva school of law. he has published three field contemporary law, legal history and early america. his new book is called "wellspring of liberty how the religious dissenters hope when the american revolution and secured religious liberty. we can count on the baptists for some good theater. this year, tranter is a research fellow at the selection or at monticello. john fea, our final speakers and associate professor of history and chair of messiah college in grantham, but looking at. hi

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thank you, barbara clark smith. our next author is john ragosta. >> i thank you all for coming. i got started on this project several years back with president culpepper county, about an hour north of here. and culpepper i became interested in the culpepper minutemen. there is some of barbara's ordinary people. these are the classic woman farmers who read about in high school to shoulder their guns, march 200 miles and win the battle of great bridge, the first significant battle in virginia during the war. they looked at the culpepper minutemen, i found william mcclanahan. william mcclanahan is an interesting guy. he's a baptist minister. we still haven't established the church of england. he's a baptist minister, captain of one of one of the battalions of the culpepper minutemen and he was put in jail in 1773 for preaching at the hospital. we have a curious problem here. my research got turned to why he is mcclanahan willing to pick up his gun and march to norfolk? i discovered three things in that process. the first thing i discovered was in fact the persecution of dissenters