Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth-century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch colonies, while maintaining less direct connections to Africa and to French and Spanish colonies. Their Atlantic world emerged from the movement of goods and services, but trade routes quickly became equally important in the transfer of people and information.
Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London. By contrast, in Atlantic Virginia, historian April Lee Hatfield demonstrates that the colonies actually had vibrant interchange with each other and with peoples throughout the hemisphere, as well as with Europeans.
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"A solid, thought-provoking study of a far more complex world than historians of seventeenth-century Virginia have yet offered."—Journal of Southern History
"Hatfield explains the importance of intercolonial trade to Virginia as well as its transatlantic connections through English and Dutch traders. . . . Hatfield's greatest contribution, however, is her persuasive argument that Virginians' contact with other colonies fundamentally shaped the way they created the institution of slavery."—Journal of American History
"This is an important book. Hatfield has made a significant contribution to the history not only of early Virginia but also to early British America."—James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
"An example of how to approach colonial history. Historians would be wise to study it carefully."—American Historical Review
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April Lee Hatfield is Associate Professor of History at Texas AandM University.
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I purchased this book as a reference for my research on early American emigrants, as I am writing a book of my own. The information contained in Atlantic Virginia is great, much of it seems to be original, and it is carefully laid out. That said, I will have to say that I can only get through a few pages at a time, as it is written in a very scholarly manner. Unfortunately, my schedule is such that I have to read at night before bed, and this work does a pretty good job of lulling me to sleep. Still, it does provide detailed and frankly fascinating insight into colonial life (once you get past the dry presentation), and it is the best chronicle I've read on the movement of goods and individuals between the American colonies of the 17th century. I would recommend it to persons interested not only in early Virginia, but to those studying other colonies, especially New England, Maryland, and the Carolinas, and those wanting to learn about New World commerce, shipping, and settlement.
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Before the Virginia Company's first ships sailed for the Chesapeake in 1606, promoters likely knew that a relatively strong and well-organized group of Indians inhabited the lower Chesapeake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intercolonial traders, intercolonial interactions, intercolonial world, intercolonial merchants, intercolonial ties, intercolonial contacts, intercolonial connections, intercolonial networks, intercolonial boundaries, intercolonial travel, intercolonial migration, intercolonial communication, intercolonial movements, intercolonial relations, other mainland colonies, intercolonial cooperation, multiple colonies, overland connections, maritime trade routes, other colonies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Netherland, Lower Norfolk, New Amsterdam, New Haven, North America, Potomac River, James River, Virginia Assembly, English Atlantic, English Virginians, Isaac Allerton, Edmund Scarborough, William Berkeley, Francis Emperor, House of Burgesses, Virginia Council, Virginia Puritans, Rhode Island, Richard Bennett, South Carolina, William Byrd, Anna Varlett, Augustine Herman, Daniel Gookin New!
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intercolonial traders, intercolonial interactions, intercolonial world, intercolonial merchants, intercolonial ties, intercolonial contacts, intercolonial connections, intercolonial networks, intercolonial boundaries, intercolonial travel, intercolonial migration, intercolonial communication, intercolonial movements, intercolonial relations, other mainland colonies, intercolonial cooperation, multiple colonies, overland connections, maritime trade routes, other colonies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Netherland, Lower Norfolk, New Amsterdam, New Haven, North America, Potomac River, James River, Virginia Assembly, English Atlantic, English Virginians, Isaac Allerton, Edmund Scarborough, William Berkeley, Francis Emperor, House of Burgesses, Virginia Council, Virginia Puritans, Rhode Island, Richard Bennett, South Carolina, William Byrd, Anna Varlett, Augustine Herman, Daniel Gookin New!
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