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The best introduction to the early years of Virginia,
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This short, chronological look at the first seventeen years of the colony of Virginia has been in print since its publication in 1957. Readable, thorough, and lively, this little history is a clear-headed view of the most troubled colony of them all. Reading through what seem in hindsight as the most bone-headed, dumb mistakes ever made by settlers this side of the Pilgrims (who arrived in the middle of winter without sufficient provisions), watching the colonists blunder time and again is graveyard humor at its grisliest. Jamestown was plunked down in the middle of a swamp, where mosquitoes and foul water bred death (and the colonists knew the cause of their troubles, but the bosses back in London wouldn't let them move). They antagonized the Indians over and over, then wondered why the Indians were so hostile. But the colonists also survived, against all odds, and produced one of the most paradoxical of all colonies and states: the birthplace of freedom and liberty in the minds of Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson, and the birthplace of slavery as well. This book should be read by anyone wanting to understand the roots of America.
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If you need a quick overview of Virginia, in its infancy. This is a good place to start.
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On May 13, 1607, three small English ships approached Jamestown Island in Virginia: the Susan Constant of 100 tons, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport and carrying seventy-one persons; the Godspeed of forty tons, commanded by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and carrying fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Elizabeth City, James River, Charles City, John Rolfe, Martin's Hundred, Virginia Company, Bermuda City, Eastern Shore, Hog Island, Samuel Argall, Newport News, Archer's Hope, Point Comfort, Sir Thomas Dale, Bermuda Hundred, George Percy, Mulberry Island, Ralph Hamor, Berkeley Hundred, George Sandys, James City, Samuel Mathews, Sir George Yeardley, Flowerdieu Hundred, George Thorpe New!
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On May 13, 1607, three small English ships approached Jamestown Island in Virginia: the Susan Constant of 100 tons, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport and carrying seventy-one persons; the Godspeed of forty tons, commanded by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and carrying fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private plantation, college lands, fixed pieces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elizabeth City, James River, Charles City, John Rolfe, Martin's Hundred, Virginia Company, Bermuda City, Eastern Shore, Hog Island, Samuel Argall, Newport News, Archer's Hope, Point Comfort, Sir Thomas Dale, Bermuda Hundred, George Percy, Mulberry Island, Ralph Hamor, Berkeley Hundred, George Sandys, James City, Samuel Mathews, Sir George Yeardley, Flowerdieu Hundred, George Thorpe New!
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- New World: The Heart of the New Testament in Plain English by Alan T. Dale on page 13, and page 17
- Colonial Period of American History: v. 2 by Charles McLean Andrews in Back Matter
- American Civilization by C. L. R. James in Back Matter
- Genesis of the United States by Alexander Brown in Back Matter
- Virginia: The Old Dominion (World Almanac Library of the States) by Pamela Pollack in Back Matter
- Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640 by Rebecca Ann Bach in Back Matter
- Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century (Documentary Problems in Early American History) by Warren M. Billings in Table of Contents
- Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Institute of Early American History and Culture) by James P. P. Horn on page 161
- Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent by Ted Morgan in Back Matter
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