Our purpose as Actor and Sites Interpreters is to provide the context and information—in the form of tours and fielding questions—for visitors to not only appreciate the history of the building they are inside, but also to understand what happened within it in the 18th century. Thanks to the hard work of many before us, we’ve had the privilege to lead excellent, engaging tours. Yet a conversation over lunch last spring got us thinking about what we might address in a more comprehensive way: colonial women.
That was the moment Colonial Williamsburg’s 2016 Women’s History Tour, Pleading Her Cause was born.
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