Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings; the stark reality of Jamestown, through the words of its inhabitants; and with archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates Jamestown's formative years with astonishing detail.
The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia. Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during...
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In Jamestown, the Buried Truth, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing the James Fort and its contents to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their ...
The collection begins by exploring the initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians and the relations of both these groups with London.
The Powhatans and the Monacans maintained a fragile peace, and Powhatan did not want the English messing that up. Despite Powhatan's opposition, plans for a new settlement near the falls of the James did go ahead, and the town of ...
... and sayling the seas, the earth and skies,” and was said to have “some knowledge of many of the fixed starrs, ... 15 of William C. Sturtevant, ed., Handbook of North American Indians; E. Randolph Turner, “Socio-Political ...
A valuable and unique primary document, this book illuminates the beginnings of English America and tells us much about how the Chesapeake Algonquians viewed the English invaders.
As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries.
Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed.
One Sunday in 1792, a dispute arose over where Allen and Jones would sit and pray. In Allen's memoir, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, he describes the incident: Meeting had begun, and they were ...