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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musselwhite, Paul, editor.

Mancall, Peter C., editor.

Horn, James, 1953- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Virginia--History--17th century.

African Americans.

Indians of North America--Virginia--History--17th century.

Indians of North America.

Slavery--Virginia--History--17th century.

Slavery.

Democracy--United States--History.

Democracy.

Politics and government.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia.

Virginia--Politics and government--To 1775.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781469652016

1469652013

9781469651798

1469651793

OCLC:

1052455610

Publisher Number:

99987022038