James Madison and John Marshall represented western Virginia at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829.

Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains murch. “it’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘why are you opening the gates of hell? ’

More than 4 million enslaved hunan beings in the south and they touched every aspect of the regions social, political and economic life.