Serving Time in Virginia After the Fact
Subject:
US History [1]
Tags:
Americas [2]
James River [5]
Debt bondage [7]
Atlantic slave trade [10]
Edwin Sandys [11]
Plantation [12]
Powhatan [13]
History of early Virginia is difficult, as there are few documents, and they aren't always trustworthy. ? Virginia was America's first representative assembly? Brought tobacco to England en masse? Captain John Smith had wrote a history of Virginia titled A Generall Historie of Virginia? Smith was generally pretty good with telling the truth, but his perspective is definitely his own, so that has to be kept in mind ? Was Smith completely truthful?? Most powerful person in region? Powhatan was the leader of a confederacy of Indians-Algonquian Indians? Virginia Company was rough in the beginning. ? 75k pounds invested to send 2k settlers. ? Happened through a joint stock arrangement? King James sent his special silkworms over. ? Went to the New World in hopes of profit. ?