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

Other author Musselwhite, Paul.
Other author Mancall, Peter C.
Other author Horn, James P. P.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWilliamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Subjects
African Americans--Virginia. --History. --17th century.
Indians of North America--Virginia. --History. --17th century.
Slavery--Virginia. --History. --17th century.
Democracy--United States. --History.
Virginia--History. --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia--Politics and government. --To 1775.

Abstract 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.
General 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018058603
ISBN9781469652016 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781469651798 (pbk : alk. paper)

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