Home > Topic > Virginia
41 " Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move. "
42 " When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' "
43 " Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia. "