Virginia Colony

Spiro Bolos
Spiro BolosSocial Studies Teacher at New Trier High School District
“Tobacco’s older than the gummint itself!”
1.England’s Slow Start
2.Plans for Virginia
3.Sir Thomas Dale, 1610s
4.Sir Edwin Sandys, 1618-19
5.Indian Relations
6.Origins of Slavery
7.Conclusions
Jamestown, Va. (1607)
England’s Slow Start
Why?
Why?
Why?THE SPANISH ARMADA
(1588: RIP)
problem of finance
joint-stock company
London Co. or Virginia Co.
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
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“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 hathe
fallen from their weake fellowes.”
“that nothing was Spared
to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as to
dig up dead corpses out of graves
and to eat them. And some have
Licked up the Blood which had
fallen from their weak fellows.”
“that nothing was Spared
to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as to
dig up dead corpses out of graves
and to eat them. And some have
Licked up the Blood which had
fallen from their weak fellows.”
“that nothing was Spared
to maintain Life and to do those
things which seem incredible, as to
dig up dead corpses out of graves
and to eat them. And some have
Licked up the Blood which had
fallen from their weak fellows.”
Sir Thomas Dale
(1610s)
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martial law
Sir Edwin Sandys
(1618-19)
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“headright” system
indentured servants
families
“Tobacco Brides”?
1619
“one hundredth and fiftie [pounds]
of the best leafe Tobacco”.
The 17th Century Bachelorette?
colonial assembly (1619)
House of Burgesses
Indian Relations
Powhaten “babysitter”
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Massacre of 1622
dissolved
royal colony
Slavery
1619
1670
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1619
1619
treatment?
Interpretation #1
indentured servants
Interpretation #2
Interpretation #2
1624/25 Muster
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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
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