History Comes Alive Festival - James Armistead Lafayett

Get ready to laugh, cry and flat out have a great time at this Festival of non-stop live history and fun for the whole family. Daily live shows are performed in costume by nationally acclaimed historical interpreters. Shows are Free!

Schedule of Events:

2:00pm: James Armistead Lafayett - Abbeville Opera House

Everybody loves a good spy story. How about an American slave that volunteers to spy for the Continental Army, does such a credible job of it, he gets recruited to be a double agent for the British gaining the confidence of both General Cornwallis and traitor, Benedict Arnold?

It’s an exciting story of a bogus “runaway slave” living a dangerous life behind enemy lines ferreting out information and spreading “mis-information” that allows the American forces to triumph at the Battle of Yorktown.

Not fiction. . .  True story. . .  And you get to hear it told by Colonial Williamsburg’s Stephen Seals.