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Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America

Title: Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America / edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.
Publication: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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320 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. 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. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

"Although this volume centers on the events of a sweltering summer in the Chesapeake Tidewater, it began life in the mountains of northern New England. It grew out of a conference hosted at Dartmouth College in the spring of 2017 ..."--Acknowledgments page.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / James Horn and Paul Musselwhite -- Before 1619 / Peter C. Mancall -- "The savages of Virginia our project" : the Powhatans in Jacobean political thought / Lauren Working -- Race, conflict, and exclusion in Ulster, Ireland, and Virginia / Nicholas Canny -- Virginia slavery in Atlantic context, 1550 to 1650 / Philip D. Morgan -- Bermuda and the beginnings of Black Anglo-America / Michael J. Jarvis -- "Poore Soules" : migration, labor, and visions for commonwealth in Virginia / Misha Ewen -- Private plantation : the political economy of land in early Virginia / Paul Musselwhite -- "A part of that commonwealth hetherto too much neglected" : Virginia's contested "publick" and the origins of the General Assembly / Alexander B. Haskell -- The company-commonwealth / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- "These doubtfull times, between us and the Indians" : indigenous politics and the Jamestown Colony in 1619 / James D. Rice -- Brase's case : making slave law as customary law in Virginia's general court, 1619-1625 / Paul D. Halliday -- Virginia and the Amazonian alternative / Melissa N. Morris -- From John Smith to Adam Smith : Virginia and the founding conventions of English long-distance settler colonization / Jack P. Greene.

Call Number

Sc E 19-1159

ISBN

9781469652016
1469652013
9781469651798
1469651793
9781469651804 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018058603

OCLC

1052455610

Title

Virginia 1619 : slavery and freedom in the making of English America / edited by Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn.

Publisher

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1775

Added Author

Musselwhite, Paul, editor.

Mancall, Peter C., editor.

Horn, James, 1953- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-1159

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