Virginians dissent -- Pleading for reform and demanding freedom -- British plans for success -- Did the dissenters fight? -- After the war -- What did they fight, and bargain for?
Summary
Virginia's dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, demanded religious liberty in return for supporting the American Revolution. The resulting negotiations not only brought Virginia, and America, religious freedom, but politicized dissenters and republicanized the polity
