virginia and jamestown
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“Tobacco’s older than the gummint itself!”
Jamestown, Va. (1607)
Jamestown, Va. (1607)
England’s Slow Start
Why?
Why?
Why?THE SPANISH ARMADA(1588: RIP)
problem of finance
joint-stock company
LondonCo.orVirginiaCo.
Plans for Virginia
“The chief Design of all Parties concern’d was to fetch away the Treasure from thence, aiming more at sudden Gain than to form any regular Colony.”
– Robert Beverly, 1705
trading posts
trading posts
Indians, Settlers, Women?
mining
mining
citrus fruits
citrus fruits
citrus fruits
“The Stinking Weed”
80%
80%
“The Starving Time”
“thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those
things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves
and to eate them. And some have Licked upp the Bloode which hathefallen from their weake fellowes.”
“that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as todig up dead corpses out of gravesand to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which hadfallen from their weak fellows.”
“that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as todig up dead corpses out of gravesand to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which hadfallen from their weak fellows.”
“that nothing was Spared to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as todig up dead corpses out of gravesand to eat them. And some have Licked up the Blood which hadfallen from their weak fellows.”
Sir Thomas Dale (1610s)
martial law
Sir Edwin Sandys(1618-19)
“headright” system
indentured servants
families
"one hundredth and fiftie [pounds] of the best leafe Tobacco".
colonial assembly (1619)
House of Burgesses (1619)
Indian Relations
Massacre of 1622
dissolved
royal colony
Slavery
1619
1670
1619
1619
treatment?
Interpretation #1
indentured servants
Interpretation #2
Interpretation #2
1624/25 Muster
Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of Arrival
Muster Date
Notes
Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of Arrival
Muster Date
Notes
servant
servant
servant
servant
Were the Africans on the muster slaves or indentured servants?
“By the time of Portuguese colonization of South America, the term “negro” [negros da terra] had become almost synonymous with “slave” in the Portuguese language” (13)
-- Nishida, Slavery and Identity
1670 law?
October 1670 - ACT XII. What tyme Indians to serve.
“WHEREAS some dispute have arisen whither Indians taken in warr by any other nation, and by that nation that taketh them sold to the English, are sevants for life or terme of yeares,
October 1670 - ACT XII. What time Indians to serve.
“WHEREAS some disputes have arisen whether Indians taken in war by any other nation, and by that nation that
took them sold to the English, are servants for life or term of years,
It is resolved and enacted that all servants not being christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives; but what shall come by land shall serve, if boyes or girles, untill thirty yeares of age, if
men or women twelve yeares and no longer.”
It is resolved and enacted that all servants not being Christians imported into this colony by shipping shall be slaves for their lives; but [who] shall come by land shall serve, if boys or
girls, until thirty years of age, if men or women twelve years and no
longer.”
Conclusions