The first part of a seventeenth-century manuscript about Bacon’s Rebellion is printed in this September 1, 1804, issue of the Richmond Enquirer. In their introduction to the manuscript, the editors suggest a historical link between the rebellion and the American Revolution 100 years before it, and they represent Nathaniel Bacon as a patriot and do not distinguish between Native nations.
In “The Banditti,” published in the Richmond Enquirer on September 20, 1831, the paper publishes excerpts from North Carolina newspaper reports on the impact of Nat Turner’s revolt locally.
In this article, published in the Richmond Enquirer on January 7, 1832, the editors argue that the House of Delegates take steps toward the emancipation of Virginia’s enslaved people.
In “Proscription of the Press!”, published in the Richmond Enquirer on January 12, 1832, the editors defend an article they published January 7, 1832 arguing that the House of Delegates take steps toward the emancipation of Virginia’s enslaved people.
In “Gabriel’s Defeat,” published on October 21, 1831, the editors of the Richmond Enquirer seek to correct the facts in an article of the same name published in the Albany Evening Journal. The subject is Gabriel’s Conspiracy (1800), although the context was the more recent, more successful uprising led by Nat Turner in Southampton County earlier in the year.
In a series of statements, published in the Richmond Enquirer on January 2, 1812, witnesses to the Richmond Theatre fire describe their experiences. The fire killed more than seventy people on December 26, 1811.
In “Memorable Disasters,” the Richmond Enquirer attempts to contextualize the horrific Richmond Theatre fire, in which more than seventy people died on December 26 1811.
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