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The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia: Creating a Culture of Political Dissent
Academic journal article from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 4
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The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia: Creating a Culture of Political Dissent. Roger P. Meilen. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. 320 pp. $119.95 hbk.
It is ironic, as Roger P. Mellen points out, that the Virginia colony, most aristocratic of the thirteen colonies of prerevolutionary America, should have become the home of the great proponents of press freedom for the new democracy. Virginia was a slave-holding colony where the aristocratic lords of the manor were given great deference by the common classes, a deference that extended to both politics and newspapers.
The very first issue of the colony's first newspaper, the Virginia Gazette …
